1. Teaching Millennial Students Bridget Arend University of Denver TELECOOP Conference, April 2008

2. Where were you…  on VJ Day?  when John F. Kennedy was assassinated?  when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded?

3. Generational Studies  Generational cohorts  Peer Personalities

4. Life Views Traditional generation = Loyal Born before mid-1940s World Wars, the Great Depression, racial inequalities, GI Bill Faith in institutions, military style of management Conformity = success

5. Life Views Baby Boomers = Optimistic Born early 1940s - early 1960s Space race, Civil Rights, Vietnam War, political assassinations, Watergate, sex & drugs, television Self-indulgence and inward focus Competitive

6. Life Views Generation X = Skeptical Born early 1960s - 1980 Destruction of the Berlin Wall, rise of AIDS, Chernobyl disaster, Tiananmen Square, consumerism, divorce, personal computer Era of at-risk & latchkey kids, Reality bites economy Criticized, critical, slackers

7. Life Views Millennials = Realistic Born after 1981 Computers, Internet, real wars on TV, extreme violence in schools, change is the norm Era of  The wanted child –Adoption, fertilization technologies  The protected child – Tylenol scare, Columbine  The worthy child – Mr. Rogers/Barney “you are special”  The perfected child – Highly-homeworked & tested

8. Clash Points

9. Millennials The Beloit College Mindset List http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/

10. In their own words… A Vision of Students Today Digital Ethnography Project Kansas State University

11. Core Traits  Special/Sheltered  Confident  Pressured  Achieving  Technologically savvy  Team-oriented  Anti-autocratic

12. References  http://portfolio.du.edu/ctlcoffeebreaks http://portfolio.du.edu/ctlcoffeebreaks  Millennials Go to College, Neil Howe & William Strauss, 2003.  Generation ME, Jean M. Twenge, 2006.  When Generations Collide, Lynne C. Lancaster & David Stillman, 2002.  Millennials Rising, Neil Howe & William Strauss, 2000.