engaging millennials: “what’s in it for me?” california maritime academy| 2011
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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; - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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;
• 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
•What is a Generation?
•What is Generational Identity?
•What is your Generation called?
getting started:
• 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
what is a generation?
http://www.eiu.edu/~arc/ - Eastern Illinois U.
generations
“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)
millennials
Central Southern Africa60.9 million
Latin America146.3 million
Western Europe124.8 million
China, Taiwan, HK254.6 million
Central South Asia219.3 million
Asian Pacific133.9 millionNorth America
99.3 million
1.2 billion mobile youthWhere are they?
2008 2009 2010 2011 20120
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New AddsTotal
data source mobileYouth.org 2009
Eastern Europe115.3 million
Middle EastNorth Africa42.8 million
North East Asia46.4 million
1.15bn 1.24bn1.36bn 1.43bn 1.50bn
50% live inAsia
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.
where does this generation live?
generational names
Gen WE
Generation ME
NetGen
Nexters
Gen Y
Echo Boom
millennial
changes in where we communicate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tahTKdEUAPk
implications: learning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&feature=related
stereotypes from first class related to comm:
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”.
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Dustin GrabschSeattle UniversityEmail: [email protected]: (206) 296-6308Twitter: dgrabschSkype: dgrabsch