Slide 1: Do you sleep with your cell phone?
Once upon a time…. : Once upon a time…. Life was all about
PUSH
Teacher = Learning + Knowledge : Teacher = Learning + Knowledge PUSHING Knowledge
Then something strange happened : Then something strange happened
The world changed but the classroom didn’t : The world changed but the classroom didn’t still PUSHING Knowledge
Growing up Digital : Growing up Digital
Now it’s a PULL World : Now it’s a PULL World Involvement
Who are our students? : Who are our students? Today is
about Pull
Choose
Connect
Create
Who are the Millennials? : Who are the Millennials? Born in digital era – social – multitasking
Collaborative – resourceful - innovative thinkers
Love a challenge
Want to produce something worthwhile
Impatient
Comfortable with speed and change
Thrive on flexibility and space to explore
Value guidance
Millennials: Open to Change : Millennials: Open to Change . Don’t Box me in!
Open to Change: Diversity : Open to Change: Diversity
Millennials: Diversity : Millennials: Diversity
Volunteering: Social Concern : Volunteering: Social Concern
Social: Collaboration : Social: Collaboration
Technology Use: Anytime/Anywhere : Technology Use: Anytime/Anywhere
Mobile 24/7 : Mobile 24/7 How Millennial Are You Quiz: http://pewresearch.org/millennials/quiz/index.php
Resources : Resources Digital Nation-Life on the virtual frontier. (2010). Frontline-PBS. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/
Digital Native Map http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/extras/digital_native.html
Hamilton, K. (July 22, 2009). Who are the Millennials. kehamilt:YouTube. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzCBtsvtD8I
How Millennial Are You? (2010). http://pewresearch.org/millennials/quiz/index.php
Millennials: Portrait of generation next. (2010). Pew Research. Retrieved from http://pewsocialtrends.org/assets/pdf/millennials-confident-connected-open-to-change.pdf
Oblinger, D. (2003). Boomers, Gen X and Millennials: Understanding the new students. Educause. Retrieved from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0342.pdf