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