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Teaching Millennials: The Challenge Of Ambiguity, Sheila M. Fisher
Teaching Millennials: The Challenge Of Ambiguity, Sheila M. Fisher
Teaching Millennials in the New Millennium, April 2011
Andre Maurois wrote in relation to Voltaire: "It is certain that a system imbued with perfect clarity has few chances of being a truthful image of an obscure and mysterious world." This could be a motto for literary studies. Words are multivalent, and their very capacity for ambiguity is the stuff of which literature and literary criticism are made. Students love literature and are drawn to it because it involves interpretation and seldom yields "perfect clarity"; they love it because of, not despite its ambiguity. This paper argues that millennial students are no more averse than their predecessors to wrestling …
Millennial Students And The Social Organization Of College Education, David A. Reuman
Millennial Students And The Social Organization Of College Education, David A. Reuman
Teaching Millennials in the New Millennium, April 2011
Although Millennial students are touted as team-oriented and skilled in collaborative work, effect size estimates of relevant cohort effects are small. Rather than just dismissing the team-oriented characterization of Millennials as an exaggeration, this paper conceptualizes team-orientation and collaborative skills as modifiable characteristics of all college students; it advocates for the systematic application of research-based cooperative learning practices in college classrooms in order to improve all students’ collaborative skills, achievement motivation, and academic performance. Principles underlying effective cooperative learning strategies are well established, but not frequently implemented fully in college classrooms. This paper examines challenges of applying cooperative learning in …
Connecting The Dots: Insights Into Millennial Students From Learning Research, Michele Dipietro
Connecting The Dots: Insights Into Millennial Students From Learning Research, Michele Dipietro
Teaching Millennials in the New Millennium, April 2011
Theories about Millennial students abound, but mostly they characterize collective cultural traits of the generation, like multitalking, technosavvy or narcissism. Educators turning to these theories for guidance on how to teach this generation find little help. Part of the problem is the disconnect between generational theory and learning science. This paper aims to bridge this gap and bring learning research, in particular from the subfields of intellectual development and metacognition, into the discussion, to uncover how certain social and parenting trends have affected students’ preparation for the complex cognitive demands of college learning and to suggest specific pedagogical strategies.
Looking Inside The Mind Of Millennial Students: What Do They Know Or Not Know About Learning, Dina L. Anselmi, Nicole M. Dudukovic
Looking Inside The Mind Of Millennial Students: What Do They Know Or Not Know About Learning, Dina L. Anselmi, Nicole M. Dudukovic
Teaching Millennials in the New Millennium, April 2011
Metacognition, or insight into one’s own learning process, may be critical for academic success. In this presentation, we cover some of the key metacognitive processes, discussing the areas in which college students often struggle. We address the questions of whether these metacognitive deficiencies are related to brain maturation, developmental stages or educational shortcomings and whether there are any metacognitive issues that are unique to millennial students (i.e., generational effects). Finally, we consider whether millennial characteristics should influence the ways in which we attempt to teach metacognitive skills to the current cohort of students.