1. There’s a new kid in town: Meet the Millennials Presented by: Dr. Karen Walker Lebanon Valley College September 27, 2007

2. Essential Questions Who are the Millennials? What does knowing about them mean to the college professor? Who are the Millennials? What does knowing about them mean to the college professor?

3. Warm Up or What’s the matter with kids today? Characteristics of –Boomers (‘46-’64) –GenXers (‘65-79) –Millennials (‘80-’00)

4. Generational Influences BoomersGenXersMillennials

5. Helicopter Hoverers

6. What motivates them? Highly social & collaborative Work well in teams Group projects - Highly structured cooperative learning - Leadership skills Positive & optimistic Contributions to society - Meaningful engagement in significant community projects Instant gratification Constant rewards Immediate feedback - Acknowledge - Ask for & utilize opinions - topics, etc. - Respect opinions

7. Learning Achievement oriented Good to be smart Goal setters Impatient - Challenge-dig deeply - Support work - Establish goals, periodic review - Immediate feedback - Interactive Real World knowledge & application Immediate real world connections Need to know, not just in case - Discuss & make real world connections - Students’ connections Conservative Traditional family values - Student thoughts- provide support - Different perspectives

8. Personalities Friends Family members Fitting in with others -Social opportunities -Give info for their parents Diversity World where people are different-racially, socioeconomically, intellectually & politically - Develop meaningful relationships - Problem solve Independent & resourceful Like choice- Select ways in which to demonstrate their knowledge & learning

9. Thinking/Processing Parallel thinkers & multitaskers More grounded in virtual world than in real world Assemble random info into patterns -Structure info individually meaningful -More than 1 thing at a time

10. Digital Immigrants Step-by-step Linear

11. Digital Natives Interactive -video clips -web pages -Wikipedia -games -chat groups -blogs

12. Digital Natives Interactive Technology Visuals before & over text Straight lecture

13. Games Outside of usual classroom experience Identify concept/idea Choices Entire class involvement End Follow up activity Run game through on paper. Step-by-step

14. Teaching Not media literate Students need to know: - valid information - spelling/grammar - writing skills - basic math & applications - deep reflection - relating to others

15. Yellow: I now know … Blue: One way I can apply this information … Share out