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Engaging Millennials: “What’s in it for me?” California Maritime Academy| 2011. what we hope to get from today : Be able to. identify terms and characteristics ascribed to the Millennial student; understand the importance and urgency of engaging Millennials with new methods;
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Engaging Millennials: “What’s in it for me?” California Maritime Academy| 2011
what we hope toget fromtoday: Be able to • identify terms and characteristics ascribed to the Millennial student; • understand the importance and urgency of engagingMillennials with new methods; • apply Millennial understanding and strategies to inform curriculum design and instruction; • develop an action plan to apply new knowledge to enhance curriculum instruction and design.
sound off: life giving and life draining aspects
getting started: • What is a Generation? • What is Generational Identity? • What is your Generation called?
what is a generation? • Consists of approximately a 20-year span (not all demographers and generation researchers agree on the exact start/stop dates) • Has a unique set of values • Reacts to the generation before them • Looks at their generation as the standard of comparison • Looks at the next generation skeptically: these kids today . . . . http://www.cpcc.edu/planning/studies_reports/ActiveFiles/millennial%20comm%20college.ppt
generations http://www.eiu.edu/~arc/ - Eastern Illinois U.
millennials “A new generation is poised to seize the reins of history...the Millennials currently include 95 million young people up to 30 years of age—the biggest age cohort in U.S. history.” (Greenburg 2007)
where does this generation live? 1.2 billion mobile youth Where are they? Western Europe124.8 million Eastern Europe115.3 million China, Taiwan, HK254.6 million North East Asia46.4 million Middle East North Africa42.8 million Asian Pacific133.9 million North America99.3 million Central South Asia219.3 million Latin America146.3 million Central Southern Africa60.9 million 1.24 billion mobile youth in 2009, rising to 1.5 billion in 2012. As a standalone country, mobile youth would be the 2nd biggest in the world, behind only China. By 2010, they will be number 1. 1.50bn 1.24bn 1.36bn 1.43bn 1.15bn 50% live in Asia data source mobileYouth.org 2009
generational names Echo Boom Gen WE Generation ME Nexters Gen Y NetGen millennial
changes in where we communicate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tahTKdEUAPk
implications: learning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&feature=related
implications: teaching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e50YBu14j3U
transformational teaching Merriam (2007) stated that “Transformational Learning is about change, dramatic, fundamental change in the way we see ourselves and the world in which we live”. Back to Prezi
closing Dustin Grabsch Seattle University Email: grabschd@seattleu.edu Tele: (206) 296-6308 Twitter: dgrabsch Skype: dgrabsch