Teaching the Facebook Generation
Connect with Your Gen-Y/Millennial Students Better and Teach More Effectively
How do you help Generation Y learn when they have nearly zero attention span, expect that you’ll be at least as tech-savvy as they are, and have high demands for heavy curriculum customization? There are ways — incredibly effective ways — once you understand and master next-generation teaching techniques for these Millennials.
Among the things you’ll learn in this fast-paced and entertaining 90 minute keynote presentation:
- Exploit learners’ low attention span with TurboLessons
- Engage your students’ curiosity by using Curriculum Mashups
- Transition from being a teacher to being a guide
- What do to when a student “friends” you on a social networking site
- Navigate the subtleties of being a respected authority figure without “talking down”
- Learn the secrets behind reality TV and apply them in your classroom (without voting anyone out of the classroom!)
- Discover the unique balance Gen Y students use when multitasking — Could having music blaring actually help their cognitive development? (Answer: Yes!)
- Use low-tech to explain high-tech
- Move away from theory-teaching and more toward helping them apply skills in the real world
- The case for permitting encouraging the use of Facebook and Twitter in the classroom
What you learn in this provocative presentation will change the way you teach for years to come.
For more information or booking inquiries, contact Tod now.
Related Presentations
Learning in a Digital World
How Technology is Changing the Way Students Learn
In a world where two thirds of kids spend more time in front of a computer than a television set, are we unknowingly re-shaping the learning patterns of children? Is living in a remote control world helping or hindering education? What key things has our networked world already taught young people behind our back, and how kids are coping with learning in the hypermedia environment we’ve handed them. In this thought-provoking, presentation, Tod will dive into the latest neurological research around cognitive development — and, using dozens of short videos and custom images, make it simple to understand. You’ll fly through the brain’s learning centres and discover how media multitasking is changing actual cognitive brain structures at the cellular level.
The Problem with Rock Tumblers
Why Our K-12 Education System is in Urgent Crisis (and How to Fix It)
The “system” means well, but it’s slowly asphyxiating the future of education. In this provocative keynote address, Tod Maffin identifies the primary ways the education system is taking the “rough stones” of learners and tries to grind and polish their way to education — while actually scraping away the culture and uniqueness the learners bring. Maffin’s five steps to repairing this damage will get your conference delegates talking days after the address.
- Download printable brochure (PDF)
- Watch complete presentation (requires password)
What Attendees Say
Verbatim comments from session evaluation forms, Calgary Teachers’ Convention, February 2008:
- “Provocative, stimulating, new information — wow. Excellent!”
- “Applicable to my current teaching situation.”
- “Excellent seminar — for parents and teachers alike — one all teachers should have attended!”
- “Brilliant, engaging, stimulating!”
- “Entertaining, informatice, engaging, humourous, and most of all personal!”
- “Does he do full-day sessions? Could we bring Tod in next year on a common PD day? Get him back!”
A sampling of Tod’s clients in just the last 24 months
- VHA Leadership Conference, Philadelphia
- B.C. Public School Employers Association
- Simon Fraser University
- Association of Administrators of English Schools of Quebec
- The Virtual School Society
- E-Learning Consortium, Florida
- Conference Board of Canada
- B.C. Teachers’ Federation
- Calgary City Teachers’ Convention Association (10,000+ attendees!)
- …and more!
Media Coverage
- “Education System ‘Rock Tumbler’ Needs An Overhaul“
- “Teachers Encouraged to Personalize Lessons” — Calgary Herald
For more information or booking inquiries, contact Tod now.
