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This article does not apply to everyone. Some people in this world do not have the regular access to these privileges. We are not the only age group that uses these resources. If something does not work the way you are used to, it makes you a little bit impatient. Having a large Itunes collection is like having a large CD collection. The past generations have also taken advantage of their technology and have also been called lazy and impatient.
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Sam O.
The millennial generation has been taken out of context. This article states "Administrators push professors to use technology in the classroom because they believe that is what today's students want." Really though we as students don't care for technology in the classroom using power points or electronic notes just makes it easier for us to skip class and just take down notes. Still receiving what we believe to be the same amount of knowledge as we would by going to to class.
ReplyDeleteWe want more then just a power point of notes with a lecture in our classes, "A new generation of students has arrived - and sorry, but they might not want to hear you lecture for an hour" This is true we don't want to just hear a lecture for an hour. We would rather hear a lecture for awhile and then have a group discussion. This way you absorb a lot more information and you get to know a little bit of what everyone is taking from the information.
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ReplyDelete- “They are smart but impatient,” who is to judge our generation like this? No one can really generalize an entire generation as impatient. There are plenty of people in our generation that are not impatient.
- The name Millennials is a stupid name and we don’t like having a weird name that sounds like a bug.
- “Students have a very short attention span.” Any people in any generation can have a short attention span. Also, it isn’t just students, it is everyone.
- “We’re looking at the ADD generation.” Not everyone has ADD again…
- “They don’t find it at all surprising to put a Webcam on a coffeepot so they can see when the coffee should be refreshed.” This is an over-exaggeration, no one would ever put a webcam on their coffee pot. A lot of people don’t have webcams and a lot of people don’t even like coffee.
The whole thing is over exaggeration and the author is just generalizing about every person in our generation. It is insulting to be referred to like that when he doesn’t even know all the people in our generation.
The use of technology in classrooms, the use of medias amongst our generation and how we learn are delivered mostly by assumptions and generalizations. They first describe our generation as capable of multitasking or juggling multiple interactive tasks at once. This comment is over exaggerated and sets the stage for the rest of the article. He later states how we choose and customize how we learn, but in a classroom, you rarely have a choice and this entire article is about the classroom. A point he makes to counter this is how colleges feel like they have to advice or improve their technology and make the classroom more interactive, but he fails to mention any colleges he asked, if it was the professors who feel behind or the administration trying to attract students by promoting these advances. Most of the problems he tries to explain or illustrate is that we learn differently than those before us, but when the colleges alter how they teach the class by incorporating technology, you force the students to use these technologies and learn from them. It is the advancing and out of context use of these technologies in classrooms that are causing these problems, not the technologies themselves.
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