1. Learning in the 21st Century
Slide Show by Cheryl Lemke, CEO, Metiri Group.
© Metiri Group, June 2003
Learning in the 21st Century should be authentic, collaborative, and reflective. While academic achievement of the content standards is critical, our children also need to be self-directed, entrepreneurial, able to manage complexity, think critically, and successfully think, communicate, and solve problems using contemporary tools. To do less is to short change this Millennial generation.

2. Different Perspectives
Slide Show by Cheryl Lemke, CEO, Metiri Group.
© Metiri Group, June 2003
Learning in the 21st Century should be authentic, collaborative, and reflective. While academic achievement of the content standards is critical, our children also need to be self-directed, entrepreneurial, able to manage complexity, think critically, and successfully think, communicate, and solve problems using contemporary tools. To do less is to short change this Millennial generation.

3. “Children are native to cyberspace, and we, as adults, are immigrants
- Douglas Rushkoff
Great analogy--about which many educators will be able to relate stories.
Example: The typical 12-year old is the often the resident expert technologist in a family. There are definite shifts in power in relationships when that happens…just as there were changes in family dynamics among immigrants as children quickly became fluent with the English language more quickly than their parents.

4. Millennials… Consumers- $150 billion annually
Digital Media Users - 6 hrs daily
Multi taskers
Hyper communicators
Gamers
Less violence, drugs and alcohol
Interested in college
More socially/civically conscious
Optimistic
In 2002, teens (ages 12-19) spent $170 billion.
15.6 million college students (ages 18-30) spend almost $200 billion annually.
Two out of three students report influencing their parents’ buying decisions. 20% of teens own stock.
28% of high school students use a foreign news source to learn about current events.
After September 11, 2001, 78% of students felt optimistic and hopeful. Two years later, 75% still look toward a future with optimism and hope.
70% of students report volunteering or participating in community service.

5. Our children must be prepared to deal with the social, medical, political, and economic implications of what technology now makes possible.
As Professor Ed Wenk, Jr says, “The tradeoffs are tremendous--just because you can to something using emergent technologies, doesn’t mean you should.”

6. Different World Industrial workers were measured by their efficiency
Knowledge workers are
measured by their effectiveness

7. Digital Disconnect Millennials Schools Section 5:
Bandwidth, Bandwidth, Bandwidth: The impact that access to high speed, robust bandwidth has the range and quality of technology uses in schools.

9. What they do online 100% 98% 95% 93% 92% 90% 89% 84% 81% 80% 77% 70%
Source: TBWA/Chiat/Day Research, 2000
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Surfing around/seeing what is out there
Looking up musical groups and artists
Chatting with friends online
Doing homework or research
Listening to music
Using instant messaging
Checking movies, TV, or concert listings
Reading the news or magazines online
Playing online games
Meeting people who share interests
Watching streaming videos
Exchanging own creative work with friends
Buying stuff
Participating in online auctions
Nearly 100% of the Millenials are online, more often with better access at home than at school. (That threshold of more access at home than at school was reached in 1998 according to a student done by Peter Grunwald.
The Pew Internet and American Life survey of 2001 reports what teenagers are doing online.
Source: Pew Internet and American Life. www.

10. Seniors’ Interest in School Waning
Percentage of 12th graders expressing opinions on…
SOURCE: University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research. Monitoring the Future 12th-Grade Study: 1983, 1990, 1995, and 2000.
NOTE ON NCES WEB SITE: The data do not meet NCES standards for response rates.
When the 1980s, when the study was first conducted, it was mostly the students planning to work immediately after high school who reported dissatisfaction with the value of high school. Today the college bound, too, register high levels of dissatisfaction.

11. Assign Intellectually Stimulating Work
Relevance beyond school
Disciplined Inquiry
Knowledge Construction

12. Quality of Assignment Counts

13. Millennials Want to Learn…
With technology
With one another
Online
In their own time
In their own place
Doing things that matter
In the Pew study students report that, although they do use technology to complete homework assignments, most of their teachers do not give assignments dependent on the use of technology.
Contrary to this fact, the Millennials want to learn using technology as a collaboration, research, and production tool…to make school more authentic and meaningful to them.

14. Geometry and Architecture