The document summarizes research on Generation Y workers in Ticino, Switzerland. The research involved surveying 236 employees born after 1980 from 6 Ticino companies. It found that while Generation Y workers are comfortable with technology privately, there is still a separation between private and work life. Generation Y workers expressed preferences for different technologies for different types of learning and knowledge acquisition. The research also found that the potential of technology is not overcoming the separation between private and work spheres.

1. La ricerca Gen Y @ work in Ticino

2. NewMinELab Manifesto
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3. Agenda
INTRO
1. Intro
2. Ancora “The only thing
“digital natives” that does not change
1. Cosa diciamo di loro
2. Come ci aspettiamo is that at any and every time
che imparino it appears
3. La nostra ricerca
that there have been
4. Risultati principali
‘great changes’. ”
M. Proust
Quotation che apre l’articolo di Bennett-Maton-Kervin
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4. 2. Il problema
• Affascinati da due concetti-metafora
– Generazione
– Digitale
• Una intuizione non fa una teoria scientifica
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6. • “Digital natives”
 implica una “digital pedagogy”?
• eLearning
 implica una eDidattica?
• Which kind of gap between
– Digital native learners
– Digital immigrant teacher
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8. Historico-socio-cultural Educative-cognitive
(by Howe & Strauss) (by Junco & Mastrodicasa)
1. Special 1. driven to success
(they feel this way because of the big economic and educative (goal-oriented, they want high-rates and prefer to get the best
attention their parents devoted to them) mark instead of criticizing a teacher)
2. sheltered 2. social
(never before children received so much protection, in medicine, (they love to interact in learning: fewer lectures and more
as well as in social experiences) discussions)
3. confident 3. experiential learners
(they trust in authority because parents and educators gave them (learning with PCs, they developed the trial-and-error way to
a lot) think, they dislike instructional manuals and like to gather information
surfing freely on Internet)
4. conventional 4. multitasking
(in opposition with genX, they prefer to respect rules of conduct, (because of the “development of their learning processes using
proper dress and social authority and not to take risks) such technologies, they developed cognitive processing styles that can
be described as ‘hypertext’ in nature”)
5. team-oriented
(because of the experience in school and the opportunities given
by the Web 2.0)
6. Achieving
(in average, they score much better than even before)
7. Pressured
(they have been spoiled and cuddled to reach the top, now they
feel it’s time to give in back something)
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9. The sly adoption
of this model
Key-points:
-Teachers have to stay up-to-date
with technologies development
-Students need learning
experiences that fit with their
cognitive style
-Task-oriented
-Multitasking
-Collaborative
-Fast
-Focused
-Sharing-based
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10. 3. La nostra ricerca
• 6 aziende ticinesi (attenzione “local”)
– 236 impiegati in fascia “gen Y” (nati dopo 1980)
• Questionario online su
• 5 LEGO ™ session (link)
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16. Parte qualitativa
• Il “potenziale tecnologico” non supera la
separazione tra vita privata e mondo del
lavoro
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18. Preferenze espresse nell’uso delle
tecnologie in base al tipo di ambito della
conoscenza-apprendimento
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19. «Ci sono più cose in cielo e in terra,
Orazio,
di quante ne sogni la tua filosofia.»
W. Shakespeare
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20. Domande?? ?
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