Please write your name on a name tag.

Begin completing the “New Technologies” survey at your table.

Welcome!

Millennial LearnersLynn Angus and Jeremiah Henson

Pathwise Domain A: Demonstrating Knowledge of Students

Understand and apply Domain A by becoming familiar with relevant aspects of students’ background knowledge and experiences.

Objective

• Become familiar with relevant aspects of students’ background knowledge and experiences

• Understand the distinctive nature of each generation

• Develop awareness of how globalization and technology influence Millennial Learners

• Identify classroom implications• Write a rough draft of classroom survey

questions

Indicators of Success/ Goals

Generational Similarities and Differences

Technology and GlobalizationWorld of Work Implications for the ClassroomClassroom Survey

AGENDA

Goal:

Increase background knowledge while building community, engagement, and energy.

Generational Similarities and Differences

…generational personas are formed by a number of factors including the cultural norms for child-rearing at the time, the perceptions of the world as the generation starts to come of age, and the common experiences the generation encounters as it enters the adult world.

- Deborah Gilburg 

Before 1945 (Traditionalists) – Pink 1946-1964 (Baby Boomers) – Green 1965-1977 (Generation X) – Purple 1978-2000 (Millennials) – Blue

Observe the statements in your category and discuss your relevant experiences.

Get into Groups

What was your favorite movie when you were 16 years old?

Describe the most significant event of your teenage and/or college years?

Describe the music of your era. Describe what would have happened when

you were a child and had a conflict with a teacher.

Your goal in the next 10 minutes is to talk to at least 2 people from at least 2 different generations. Discuss the following:

Of course, it’s important to remember that generalizations about the generations are just that. Age defines a demographic, not a person. We are, after all, talking about millions of individuals here, each with his or her own unique set of work and life experiences.

-Senior Editor Steff Gelston CIO.com

BOOMERS XERS MILLENNIALSconquer connect fragmentedget ahead get along get awayproduct process informationlive to work work to live live to knowinnovative adaptive analyticaljob first family & friends first niche group firsttrust demanded trust earned trust eroded

What do you identify with? What do you see in your students?

I don’t trust you, but I want to trust you, so please don’t let me down.

I’m going to test you and wait and see if you really mean what you say.

- McAllister

Their [Gen Y] B.S. detectors are

always on. - McAllister

Welcome to the Human Network

Goal:

Demonstrate an understanding of students’ background knowledge and experiences.

Technology andGlobalization

shiFt happens 2.01-1-1 protocol

1 question1 thing that surprised you

1 implication for your work

Round Robin share

Unites Connects Empowers

communication Write anything

about anyone

Divides Interrupts Coarsens and dumbs

down language Read anything

anyone writes about me

-The World Is Flat, p. 517

Technology ParadoxTechnology…

My personal dread derived from the obvious fact that it’s not only the software writers and computer geeks who get empowered to collaborate on work in a flat world. It’s also al-Qaeda and other terrorist networks. The playing field is not being leveled only in ways that draw in and superempower a whole new group of innovators. It’s being leveled in a way that draws in and superempowers a whole new group of angry, frustrated, and humiliated men and women.

– Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat

“continuous partial attention”

We’re so accessible, we’re inaccessible….we are everywhere—except where we actually are physically.

–Linda Stone

“Time’s Person of the Year:You” & “But Enough About You…”

Text Rendering Protocol

Roles A facilitator and a scribe

Set UpRead the document and mark the sentence, the phrase, and the word that you think is particularly important.

Share out your sentence, phrase, and word using the Text Rendering Protocol in your packet.

If character is destiny, and if strangers have so many more tools to look inside your character now, then you better start building a solid character early….

  Every e-mail you send, every entry you make in Facebook, in MySpace, or on YouTube is a digital footprint that will never be washed away by the sea.

– Thomas L. Friedman

More than 80% of people aged 18 to 49 Only 33% of those older than 65 72% of whites 69% of English-speaking Hispanics 58% of African-Americans 59% of those with a high school education 91% of college-educated folks

-Pew Internet Dec. 2006 Survey

Facebook’s fastest growing demographic consists of people 35 or older.

– Lev Grossman, Time Magazine

Who uses the Internet?

There can be no gainsaying about the fact that a great revolution is taking place in the world today….That is, a technological revolution with the impact of automation and cybernation….Modern man through scientific genius has been able to dwarf distance. Through our genius we have made this world a neighborhood. And yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this.

-Martin Luther King, Jr., March 31, 1968

Discuss some possible questions for your student survey that would help you better understand their background knowledge and experiences.

Have one person from your table write one of your questions on chart paper.

Develop Survey Questions

Using text messaging, find out someone’s 1. year of birth and 2. the number of jobs that person

has held Try to get a response from a geographical

location as far from Cincinnati as you can.

We’ll see you in 15 minutes!

Text (SMS) Messaging?

As you return from break…

1. Get a colored dot.2. Write down the information

gathered from your text message (birth year and number of jobs).

3. Put your dot on the map to indicate the source of the text message.

Post-break assignment

Video Conference

Goal:

Understand the importance of becoming familiar with students’ background experiences.

World of Work

Use the 4 A’s Text Protocol.

Assumptions Agree Argue Aspire

60 Minutes

Millennials at Work

LIABILITIES ASSETS

Distaste for menial work

Lack of skills for dealing with difficult people

Impatience Lack of experience Confidence

-Claire Raines “Generations at Work”

Multitasking Goal orientation Positive attitude Technical savvy Collaboration Inclusive Hopeful Civic-minded Confidence

…no matter what your profession – doctor, lawyer, architect, accountant – if you are an American, you better be good at the touchy-feely service stuff, because anything that can be digitized can be outsourced to either the smartest or the cheapest producer, or both…. Everyone has to focus on what exactly is [his] value-add.- Paraphrase of Jaithirth Rao, President of Indian accounting

firm MphasiS

Provide structure. Provide leadership and guidance. Encourage self-assuredness and “can-do” attitudes. Take advantage of teaming. Encourage them to join. Listen. Millennials are up for challenge and change. Take advantage of their computer, cell phone, and

electronic literacy. Capitalize on their affinity for networking. Provide a life-work balanced workplace. Provide a fun, employee-centered workplace.

DEVELOP SURVEY QUESTIONS

11 Tips for Millennial Management

Goal:

Review the day, synthesize and apply our learning to our work.

Implications for the Classroom

For TWO minutes, write your thoughts, reactions, reflections, or feelings about what you have learned and discussed today.

When time is up, you will be asked to pass your paper clockwise at your table.

Read the paper you receive and again write your thoughts, reactions, reflections, or feelings.

Continue the process until you are asked to stop.

Write Around

For most of history, kids grew up in the dark intellectually… In terms of knowing the world you lived in, as a kid you were pretty much left in the dark. Until you got to school… One of the key purposes of school was to lead as many kids as possible out of the intellectual darkness into the intellectual light. That is what made being an educator a truly noble calling: We were the people who showed the kids the light… There’s one big problem with this noble thought today: Today’s kids grow up in the light.

Somehow, schools have decided that all the light that surround kids – that is, their electronic connections to the world – is somehow detrimental to their education.

“Whenever I go to school,” says one student… “I have to power down.” He’s not just talking about his devices – he’s talking about his brain. Schools, despite our best intentions, are leading kids away from the light.

–Marc Prensky, “Turning on the Lights”

Walk around the room and find someone with a different quote.

Talk for 2 minutes, collecting observations and insights from your partner.

You will be asked to find a new partner several times.

Return to your table and compare notes.

Walk-Around Protocol

In view of the very radical shift in the economical and social world in which our students will function, it is frightening to realize that the structure of our classrooms has not changed. We structure our classes as if our students will work within static and individualistic economic structures.

– Spencer Kagan

Move to a table with others who teach your same content area.

Read “21st Century Thinking Skills”

Discuss: Given this information, what are the implications for our instructional decisions?

21st Century Thinking

Goal:

Develop a survey to obtain background information about your students.

Gallery Walk

Lynn.Angus@HCESC.org

Jeremiah.Henson@HCESC.org

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