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What are the important differences between “Net
Generation”/"Millennial" Learners and more traditional learners? [Is this
a valid distinction?]
What are the implications for teaching and learning?
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Resources
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Excerpt from
Educating the Net Generation, (23pp. - PDF)
Chapter 2: Is it Age or IT: First Steps Towards Understanding the Net
Generation
Diana Oblinger, EDUCAUSE and James Oblinger, North Carolina State University
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/pub7101b.pdf
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Article (8pp. - PDF)
Boomers, Gen-Xers, and Millennials:
Understanding the "New Students"
Diana Oblinger,
EDUCAUSE Review, July/August 2003
Volume 38, Number 4
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Book Summary (6pp. HTML)
Growing Up Digital - The Rise of the Net Generation
by Don Tapscott
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1998. Available on 8/12/2005 from
BusinessSummaries.com where it was posted "...with permission from TCI
Management Consultants. A group of senior-level management consultants,
offering strategic planning and marketing services to a wide range of public
and private sector clients. .."
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Article (approx. 2pp.)
The Myth about Students: “We Understand Our Students.”
Diana G. Oblinger and Brian L. Hawkins, EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 40, no. 5
(September/October 2005): 12–13.
PDF version
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Discussion Activity - Key Questions for "Net Generation"
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How many and which of
our students are “Net Generation”/"Millennial" learners?
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How many and which of
our students are more traditional learners?
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What are important
differences between these kinds of learners? Especially, but not only,
with respect to their comfort with and frequency of use of information
technology and multimedia?
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To what extent should
we modify our curriculum, teaching approaches, and learning options to
be more appealing to “Net Generation”/"Millennial" learners? What are realistic
options for doing so? What kinds of things must we change in order to do
so? (e.g., technological infrastructure, curricular goals, training
options available to ALL faculty, public access to computing resources,
or handheld devices, ….)
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To what extent should
we modify our curriculum, teaching approaches, and learning options to
better enable “Net Generation”/"Millennial" learners to take full advantage of more
traditional learning options? To master more traditional skills still
essential for success on many career paths? (e.g., analytical reading
skills; writing skills) What are realistic options for doing so? What
kinds of things must we change in order to do so? (e.g., technological
infrastructure, curricular goals, training options available to ALL
faculty, public access to computing resources, or handheld devices, ….)
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AND similar questions
about enabling “traditional” learners to take fuller advantage of “Net
Generation”/"Millennial" style options.
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AND similar questions
about differences among teachers and other academic support
professionals, administrators! What kinds of accommodations should be
planned for the first “Net Generation”/"Millennial" teachers? For teachers who are
already more like “Net Generation”/"Millennial" learners?
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