Gen Y: The changing face of adult education

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1. Slide 1: Gen Y: The changing face of the adult learner Baby Boomer X Y Net C Anne Bartlett-Bragg Z (BabyBoomer)
2. Slide 2: Which generation are you?? Add up your points to figure out what generation you’re really a part of: • Do you have your own web page? (1 point) • Have you made a web page for someone else? (2 points) • Do you IM your friends? (1 point) • Do you text your friends? (2 points) • Do you watch videos on YouTube? (1 point) • Do you remix video files from the Internet? (2 points) • Have you paid for and downloaded music from the Internet? (1 point) • Do you know where to download free (illegal) music from the Internet? (2 points)
3. Slide 3: Which generation are you?? Add up your points to figure out what generation you’re really a part of: • Do you blog for professional reasons? (1 point) • Do you blog as a way to keep an online diary? (2 points) • Have you visited MySpace at least five times? (1 point) • Do you communicate with friends on Facebook? (2 points) • Do you use email to communicate with your parents? (1 point) • Did you text to communicate with your parents? (2 points) • Do you take photos with your phone? (1 point) • Do you share your photos from your phone with your friends? (2 points)
4. Slide 4: Which generation are you?? 0 - 1 point: Baby Boomer 2 - 6 points: Generation Jones 6 -12 points: Generation X 12 or over: Generation Y From Penelope Trunk, Brazen Careerist, June 2007
5. Slide 5: Gen Y: who are they?
6. Slide 6: Gen Y: who are they? • Baby Boomers: 1940s - 1960 / 1964 (The Jones/ Shadow Boomers): 1954 - 1964 • Gen X: 1965 - 1980 / 1982 • Gen Y: 1982 - 2000 • Net Gen: 1994 - 2000 • Gen Z: 2001 - ?
7. Slide 7: Gen-eralisations… Baby Gen X Gen Y Boomers Attributes: Optimistic Independent Hopeful Workaholic Skeptical Determined Likes: Responsibility Freedom Public activism Work ethics Multi-tasking Latest technology Can-do Work-life attitude balance Parents Dislikes: Laziness Red tape Anything slow Turning 50 Hype Negativity Oblinger & Oblinger, 2005
8. Slide 8: Gen Y: How do they behave? Communicate with Digitally fluent anyone, anywhere, High self-esteem anytime Work hard but Success oriented guard personal time Want immediate results Like collaboration Like mentoring Technology is a means Hate criticism to an end
9. Slide 9: Gen Y: How do they learn? In groups Experiential Connected Social Crave Visual interactivity Short attention spans Want immediate results Require structure & Success oriented guidelines - not ambiguity Need feedback Pragmatic Collaboration IM
10. Slide 10: What are the implications for education? Content Technology Learning Spaces Issues
11. Slide 11: Content Interactive Group Visual Work cues Co- producers Experiential Structure Immediate feedback
12. Slide 12: Pragmatic Structure Relevance vs Ambiguity Clear Parameters objectives Procedures Short tasks + Priorities feedback
13. Slide 13: Learning Spaces
14. Slide 14: Learning Spaces Social spaces Think Inclusiveness Prolific Communicators
15. Slide 15: What about the technology…? Me? I crave Just im sms is interactivity Technology enables me best me to do things Technology: • Is NOT their focus • needs to be interactive • LMS are NOT interactive • IM • sms More than 80% of students • simultaneous conversations relate the benefits of technology • social software to convenience. • social networking Oblinger & Oblinger, 2005
16. Slide 16: What about the issues…? Digital Literacy: • critical evaluation • surface understanding of technology Immediacy: • more emphasis on speed than accuracy • development of learning over time Copy & Paste
17. Slide 17: A final word from the students themselves…