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BRIDGING THE GAP: HOW TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE MILLENNIAL STUDENTMary Ann Blitt
MCC-Maple Woods
WHO ARE THE STUDENTS IN YOUR CLASSROOM?
GENERATIONS AND INFLUENTIAL EVENTS
Baby Boomers (1943-1960)
Generation X (1960-1980)
Millennials (1980-2000)
Liberation Movements (Civil Rights, Women’s Lib)
Roe vs. Wade Technology
Woodstock MTV Clinton/Lewinsky
Kennedy and MLK assassinations
Fall of the Berlin Wall
School shootings
Vietnam War Desert Storm 9/11 attacks
DPO&M Diversity & Inclusion Business Council
BEST PRACTICES ACROSS GENERATIONS
Baby Boomers (1943-1960)
Generation X (1960-19780)
Millennials (1980-2000)
Communication
Ask, don’t tell Brief, pertinent info only
Keep it real, interactive
Development Acknowledge accomplishments
Let them run it
Group learning
Feedback Formal, periodic, documented
Frequent Immediate
Work Do it all Do it with help Cut and paste
DPO&M Diversity & Inclusion Business CouncilBonner, Fred. Teaching and Advising the Millennial Generation in Higher Education Texas State University
MILLENNIALS: WHO ARE THEY?
Approximately 75% of degree-seeking students
Most diverse generation in history Grew up protected Connected to parents Focused on achievement Technology is the norm
Paula Gleason (Meeting the needs of Millennial Students In Touch, CSU Long Beach, winter 2008)Diana Oblinger (Understanding the New Students, EDUCAUSE Review, July/August 2003)
MILLENNIALS: IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Students know each other and work in groups
Christy Price Why Don’t My Students Think I’m Groovy: The New “R”s for Engaging Millennial Learners E-xcellence in Teaching, Vol.9, 2009
IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: SOCIAL
MILLENNIALS: IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Students know each other and work in groups
Learning is relaxed, enjoyable and fun
Christy Price Why Don’t My Students Think I’m Groovy: The New “R”s for Engaging Millennial Learners E-xcellence in Teaching, Vol.9, 2009
MILLENNIALS: IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Students know each other and work in groups
Learning is relaxed, enjoyable and fun Use of multimedia
Christy Price Why Don’t My Students Think I’m Groovy: The New “R”s for Engaging Millennial Learners E-xcellence in Teaching, Vol.9, 2009
IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: MULTIMEDIA
MILLENNIALS: IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Students know each other and work in groups
Learning is relaxed, enjoyable and fun Use of multimedia Relevance
Christy Price Why Don’t My Students Think I’m Groovy: The New “R”s for Engaging Millennial Learners E-xcellence in Teaching, Vol.9, 2009
IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: RELEVANCE
IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: RELEVANCE
MILLENNIALS: IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Students know each other and work in groups
Learning is relaxed, enjoyable and fun Use of multimedia Relevance Interactive, participatory
Christy Price Why Don’t My Students Think I’m Groovy: The New “R”s for Engaging Millennial Learners E-xcellence in Teaching, Vol.9, 2009
IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: INTERACTIVE
IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: INTERACTIVE
IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: INTERACTIVE
Our task as educators involves far more than teaching the content of our courses. We need to teach students how to become effective learners and guide them in honing their critical-thinking skills. (Angela Provitera McGlynn, psychology professor Mercer County Comunity College)
DISCOVERY LEARNING
What is discovery learning?
Through guided discovery learning the student builds knowledge through an active process with the guidance of the teacher.
IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: INTERACTIVE
MILLENNIALS: IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
When using guided discovery learning and creating examples for student analysis consider the following:
Present one thing at a timeHave a number of examples for the
students to observe a patternPresent the examples in meaningful contextCarefully structure questions that will guide
students to come up with the rules
IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: INTERACTIVE
IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: INTERACTIVE
IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: INTERACTIVE
IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: INTERACTIVE
MILLENNIALS: ASSESSMENTS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Graded
Relevant
Frequent
Structured, clear
Christy Price Why Don’t My Students Think I’m Groovy: The New “R”s for Engaging Millennial Learners E-xcellence in Teaching, Vol.9, 2009
Millennials: Assessments and assignments
CLOSING DISCUSSION
Something I currently do that seems to reach my millennial students is...
Something I’d like to do differently to reach these students is...
REFERENCES Bonner, Fred. Teaching and Advising the Millennial Generation in
Higher Education PowerPoint presentation Texas State University DPO&M Diversity & Inclusion Business Council Castronova, Joyce. Discovery Learning for the 21st Century:
What is it and how does it compare to traditional learning in effectiveness in the 21st Century? http://chiron.valdosta.edu/are/Litreviews/vol1no1/castronova_litr.pdf
Gleason, Paula. (Meeting the needs of Millenial Students In Touch, CSU Long Beach, winter 2008)
Howe, Neil and William Strauss. Millennials go to College: Executive Summary AACRAO and Life Course Associates, 2003
Oblinger, Diana. (Understanding the New Students, EDUCAUSE Review, July/August 2003)
Prensky, M. (2001) Digital natives, Digital immigrants. On the Horizon. Vol. 9, No. 5: NCB University Press.
Price, Christy. Why Don’t My Students Think I’m Groovy: The New “R”s for Engaging Millennial Learners E-xcellence in Teaching, Vol.9, 2009