[AISWorld] AMCIS Panel on iGeneration Student Engagement (Thursday afternoon)

[Timothy Hill]

Colleagues, if you're attending AMCIS this week, please consider joining us
for a lively panel on Thursday afternoon (5-6:30pm, Backbay C):

Inroads to Engaging iGeneration Students in Innovative IS Education:
Lessons Learned in the Trenches

The panelists include faculty who have been grappling with this wicked
problem as well as an genuine iGeneration MIS student!

Note that this panel runs 5:00-6:30pm on the first day of AMCIS sessions,
Thursday, the 10th, just BEFORE the Welcome Reception (6:30-7:30). Hope to
see you there!

Panelists:
Martin Doyle - Temple University
David Kocsis - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Richard Sessions - San Jose State University
Rebecca Jackson - Temple University

ABSTRACT
Some iGeneration students we face in our classrooms today were just seven
years old when the iPhone was introduced. They are profoundly different
from previous generations in ways that often make them challenging to
engage, but delving into those distinctions offers strategies to meet the
challenges. The panel is drawn from different roles in different programs
that have been exploring such strategies in their classrooms, leveraging
the iGeneration’s penchant for social media and compelling story-telling to
engage them in innovative IS education. These programs are experimenting
with experiential learning cast as blog postings from a fictional student
character that vicariously places real students inside a Silicon Valley
startup, crafting a mobile/web app using Saleforce.com’s innovative
enterprise technology platform. Preliminary data has suggested promise and
the panelists share their perspectives, as instructors, administrators and
iGeneration students themselves, based on their early experiences, to help
identify lessons learned and stimulate creative discussion.


Timothy R. Hill, Director
School of Information Systems and Technology
Lucas College and Graduate School of Business
San Jose State University
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA  95192-0244
(408) 924-3512
http://www.sjsu.edu/people/timothy.hill/