notes on Millenials as learners from LESCN 4/1/09

Millennials:

• collaborate with their parents
• world is open 24/7
• pressured by work-integrated into home as modeled by parents
• enveloped in a world where confidence is emphasized, they are guided and secure: greater safety net
• hopeful goal + achievement oriented, civic minded
• inclusive: 31% minority, used to being organized into teams, no one left behind norm. As educators, we need to push more independent work so they can be self-sufficient learners as well as team learners
• read: Neil Howe Millennials Rising
• Parallel process + multi-task. Takeaway: instead of 1 task for 20 min, launch 2 tasks at once for 40 minutes (LH "have-to" day)
• Graphics BEFORE text. Graphic organizers integrated into lesson, always on the wall throughout, nonlinguistic representations
• Marzano 9 strategies
• authentic, real world context
• mutimedia does not produce lazy learners
• overview of learning in a graphic organizer that stays up throughout learning
• ask for feedback/give feedback/formative assessments
• let failure be ok, have to establish that as a culture in your classroom