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Chapter 1 - The Millennial Generation - Understanding and Engaging Today’s Learners
Emergence of the millennial generation
Millennial Generation - The generation of children born approximately between 1976 and 2000.
Millennial Generation - First cohort of learners raised on and confirmed as experts in the latest, fastest,
coolest, greatest, newest electronic technologies on the planet.
Characteristics of millennial generation, they have the tendencies to:
Communicate more through technology than in person
Work and learn in teams and possess high energy
Seek career advancement, desire flexibility and higher pay
Work hard but also enjoy pleasure
Share what they have learnt through collaboration in small groups
Be financially savvy
Multitask proficiently – Working with content and simultaneously interacting with others
Take on different roles in learning – Learner, instructor and supporter
Spend a lot of money
Starkest difference between the Millennial Generation and any other generation - The availability and
accessibility of information.
Generation believes - Knowledge is power, and all knowledge can be found quickly through the internet
Seven core traits that can be linked to the millennial generation:
They are made to feel they are special.
They have been sheltered by their parents and society
They are confident, with high levels of trust and optimism.
They have developed strong team building skills (team-orientated)
They are conventional, following rules and standards.
They have been pressured to study hard and excel.
They are high achievers and highly educated.
Learning styles of the millennial generation
Learners want to control how, why and when a task is completed.
The preferred learning styles of millennial generation learners:
Experimental activities
Using technology
Structure
Teamwork
Experimental activities:
The most frequent learning styles in the Millennial Generation are the kinaesthetic and visual learning
styles.
Millennial Generation learners prefer “active learning”, instead of learning by the customary transmission
or the auditory lectorial learning model.
Millennial Generation learners prefer learning through experiences which actively engage them, and
construct their own learning by “doing” rather than just being told.
Multi-sensory media such as diagrams, graphs, video and flow charts, instead of just texts, are favoured by
these learners.
As learners retain 5% of material presented in the classroom, 10% of what they read, 20-30% of what they
see, and 75% of what they do, we can clearly see that is an effective approach to learning.
This can be implemented by having the learners engage in kinaesthetic and visual learning, by for example
having the learners move and point to body parts when learning about human anatomy. Another way to
implement this, is by having the learners, for example having them practice maths on an interactive whiteboard.
, Technology:
Because of the fact that Millennial Generation learners are technologically savvy, this leads to them to
relate to and appreciate the flexibility and comfort of an online teaching environment.
Just as other learners, Millennial Generation learners interact better with meaningful experiences.
To provide and environment for deep learning and understanding, the following is important:
The learners interact better with meaningful experiences
Having a greater ability to study at their own time, pace and choosing.
It is not necessarily technology that makes learning engaging, but the learning activity.
The only innovations of value are those which enable engagement by making learning more active, social
and learner centred, which is indicated by phrases such as web “surfing” and “texting”.
I can implement technology in the classroom by having the learners work on tablets, and completing tasks on a
laptop. I can also present lessons by using a data projector, which will make the lesson more interesting for the
learners. Using an interactive whiteboard also helps to keep things interesting.
Structure:
Even though Millennial Generation learners want to be entertained, learning has to be “high touch” and
“high tech”.
Today’s learners prefer an encouraging learning environment which scaffolds or structures the teaching
and learning process appropriately.
Accordingly, presenting material in a step-by-step approach, large bodies of text will be more manageable
and more readily processed.
Feedback and monitoring by instructors still fulfil a vital motivational role, even though tasks may be done
online.
This can be implemented by creating an encouraging environment, where positive behaviour and good
performance are encouraged and enforced by positive feedback. I will also incorporate scaffolding, by
encouraging the learners to slowly start working on their own. By presenting the learners with step-by-step
instructions, will also prove more advantageously than giving all of the instructions all at once.
Teamwork:
Today’s learners lean towards activities that encourage peer or social interaction.
Therefore, they often favour group-based approached to study and activities that encourage cooperative
learning.
The commonness of online gaming encourages cooperation among players, and therefore it provides a
context for the exposure of learning communities.
Such joined activities improve the relationships between learners and social development. They also
improve academic learning and retention, cognitive development, and active engagement, and provide and
genuine learning experience that expand marketable skills, such as teamwork and communication.
I can incorporate teamwork in the classroom by having compulsory group work activities, which will count for
marks. I will also encourage teamwork in the classroom by encouraging activities that require teamwork, such as
a group quiz, which is fun and academically challenging.
Understanding and engaging today’s learners
Learner-centred learning:
Has the power to motivate and inspire today’s learners, and is a tool for creating the kind of students you
would like to teach.
Focus on two elements:
Understanding learners
Engaging learners
Connecting them with content and each other.
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