{"id":5882,"date":"2019-04-01T16:10:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2019-04-01T16:10:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T20:10:53","slug":"google-guru-preparing-for-gen-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/google-guru-preparing-for-gen-z\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Guru Preparing for Gen Z"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louis Arias –\u00a0Staff Writer<\/p>\n

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Google\u2019s \u201cEducation Evangelist\u201d, Jaime Casap questions the current educational system, not the teachers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gen Z was born into a different planet. The post-911 generation does not know a world without the Internet or Google. In America, they grew up with live shooter drills since they were 5. They realize that entire species are disappearing and they\u2019re all too familiar with climate change and \u201cthe world is dying\u201d narrative.<\/p>\n

DSC\u2019s 11th<\/sup> Annual Academic Excellence Symposium is another step DSC is taking in preparing its professional staff to address the challenges and opportunities of educating a generation that thinks of higher education differently. The theme for this year\u2019s event was \u201cInstitutional Outcomes: Building Bridges to Student Success.\u201d<\/p>\n

With regard to the symposium\u2019s theme, DSC\u2019s Director of Planning and Professional Development, John Brady, said, \u201cWe designed it as a day of conversations about innovative practices that support student success through four different institutional outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each of the event\u2019s concurrent sessions focused on one of four different skillsets:\u00a0 critical thinking, communication (reading, writing and exchanging information), cultural literacy and Informational and technical literacy. These are also the formal, institutional goals of the College.<\/p>\n

2019\u2019s keynote symposium speaker was Jaime Casap, Google\u2019s \u201cEducation Evangelist.\u201d\u00a0 According to FutureSource Consulting, this tech giant\u2019s lead in the education market and mind share is currently pushing 60 percent.<\/p>\n

Google\u2019s G-Suite and Classroom are designed to complement their low-priced Chromebooks. The multi-national tech company is well aware of the fact that as digitization replaces\u00a0 jobs, people with higher skill levels will be needed.<\/p>\n

Casap stated that Generation Z values experience right from the beginning of their education. They don\u2019t necessarily buy into the traditional 4-year college model. They want to see outcomes and see them fast. He noted that this upcoming\u2019s generation\u2019s challenge of dealing with unprecedented levels of automation and robotics requires it to be fluent in today\u2019s language: computer science.<\/p>\n

The challenges of a radically different job market can only be met by a generation equipped with problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, an ability to learn quickly and creative skills. Google believes that technology is the key to get these next college students ready to meet those challenges.<\/p>\n

When it comes to objections experienced teachers may have when presented with untested and<\/p>\n

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radically different learning technologies, Casap discounted that notion. He redirected the conversation towards the inadequacy of standardized tests, saying, \u201cHow many kids have taken Spanish classes throughout high school?\u00a0 Did anyone ever learn to speak it through them? Teachers are not the problem.\u00a0 The current system is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor Luke Sui, who teaches computer science classes at DSC\u2019s Advanced Technology Center, attended the event again this year. A couple of weeks after the symposium, Sui recalled what he learned from the symposium workshops he attended.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember the speech from the man from Google and he was right.\u00a0 No matter what profession you have, accounting, healthcare, etc., everyone is going to need some computer training so they know how to get what they need.<\/p>\n

\u201cI teach mainly programming classes so a lot of what was discussed really doesn\u2019t apply in my case.\u00a0 There some things that are helpful because we have to be sensitive to student\u2019s beliefs and culture, but I think that a lot of it is just a matter of using common sense,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Louis Arias –\u00a0Staff Writer Gen Z was born into a different planet. The post-911 generation does not know a world without the Internet or Google. In America, they grew up with live shooter drills since they were 5. They realize that entire species are disappearing and they\u2019re all too familiar Continue reading Google Guru Preparing for Gen Z<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5886,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions\/5886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}