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Service-Learning As A Pedagogical Approach For Net Generation Learners: A Case Study, Sally Blomstrom
Service-Learning As A Pedagogical Approach For Net Generation Learners: A Case Study, Sally Blomstrom
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This chapter focuses on service-learning as a pedagogical approach for Net Generation learners, and presents a case study from a private technological institution in the United States as an example. The chapter covers details of the assignment as a case study, specific considerations in the assignment’s design for Net Generation learners, ways in which the assignment followed principles of service-learning assignments, and how service-learning principles correspond with Net Generation learner characteristics. The case study focuses on an assignment for a speech class in which university students developed and delivered presentations on science topics to two audiences: children in an afterschool …