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Bridging the gap: How to meet the needs of the Millennial student

Bridging the gap: How to meet the needs of the Millennial student. M ary Ann Blitt MCC-Maple Woods. Who are the students in your classroom?. Generations and influential events. DPO&M Diversity & Inclusion Business Council. Best practices across generations.

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Bridging the gap: How to meet the needs of the Millennial student

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  1. Bridging the gap: How to meet the needs of the Millennial student Mary Ann Blitt MCC-Maple Woods

  2. Who are the students in your classroom?

  3. Generations and influential events DPO&M Diversity & Inclusion Business Council

  4. Best practices across generations DPO&M Diversity & Inclusion Business Council Bonner, Fred. Teaching and Advising the Millennial Generation in Higher Education Texas State University

  5. 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)

  6. 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

  7. Ideal learning environment: Social

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. Ideal learning environment: Multimedia

  11. 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

  12. Ideal learning environment: Relevance

  13. Ideal learning environment: Relevance

  14. 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

  15. Ideal learning environment: Interactive

  16. Ideal learning environment: Interactive

  17. 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 ProviteraMcGlynn, psychology professor Mercer County Comunity College)

  18. Discovery learning • What is discovery learning? • Through guided discovery learning the student builds knowledge through an active process with the guidance of the teacher.

  19. Ideal learning environment: Interactive

  20. Millennials: Ideal learning environment

  21. Ideal learning environment: Interactive • When using guided discovery learning and creating examples for student analysis consider the following: • Present one thing at a time • Have a number of examples for the students to observe a pattern • Present the examples in meaningful context • Carefully structure questions that will guide students to come up with the rules

  22. Ideal learning environment: Interactive

  23. Ideal learning environment: Interactive

  24. Ideal learning environment: Interactive

  25. 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

  26. Millennials: Assessments and assignments

  27. 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...

  28. 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

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