Knowing Your Students
Intergenerational Interactions
Teachers and Pre-Service Teachers
No generational learner differences in teacher education program.
Believe they can solve educational technology issue
Teachers and Students
Proper training needed for teachers AND students on use of technology
Teachers and Teachers
All generationas are working together more than ever before
Technology
Reality is: those with a higher income and higher education are MORE tech savvy
No relationship between age and internet know-how
Generational Assumptions
Better educated
Natural ability towards computer technologies
Have unique learning styles DIFFERENT from previous generations
More ethnically diverse
More affluent
Digital immigrants (born pre digital age)
Do not understand technology like Millennials
Learners function better when networked
Prefer games to serious work
Students use sophisticated digital skills
Students today are tech savvy
Task switching
Have the ability to multi-task
Generational Divides
Millenials
Working hard is not virtuous in itself
ICT usage driven by familiarity, cost and immediacy
Psychological refractory period
Unable to ignore irrelevant stimuli
Pregenerations
Lack digital proficiency
Teamwork
Generations of Learners
Baby Boomers
Low tech childhood
Return to duty
Team work
Civic responsibility
Millennials
Gen "ME"
Epidemic of narcissism
Self esteem movement
Overconfidence
Technologically diverse
More efficient/savvy tech users
Digital Natives
Accept little at face value
Active participants in the making of meaning in their culture
High reliance on emerging technologies
Immersed in technology since birth
