Generation Y--How this course helped the instructor
I am going to recommend to our DOE that every instructor take this course. While trying to find more ways to be effective in the classroom, I actually learned a lot more about my own learning style as a CEC instructor.
This Boomer enjoyed this course.
As a tail end of BOOMERS raised in Europe I enjoy this learning too but I notice weakness gen-y-s have in in life preparation and adaptation into proven methods, unwillingness to focus on task at hand, and such.
I am from the baby boomer generation and I love the idea of incorporating the contract between the student and the professor. I teach Dental Hygiene students and I'm sure they have specific goals and objectives that they would love to meet. I feel if I incorporated the goals and objectives into my course syllabus the students would have a completely different approach to their learning experience. They would be not only completing assignments for me or for a requirement but also for them selves.
I feel their knowledge level would increase and It would enhance critical thinking skills as well.
This course was great!!!
I too learned much about Generation Y. There are many things I had noticed about their learning style, but it really solidified my thoughts after completing this course.
This information has been a great eye opener for me. I have students that are from both Y and X generations . I have noticed that the X gen. students don't respond to the same methods that the Y generation students do. I have also noticed that the two groups react differently when presented with the same information . Now I have new tools and a better understanding of why.
Kitt,
so true & while we get frustrated with them, we must remember why we are there.
Ryan Meers, Ph.D.
This module has changed my attitude toward the Gen Y student. I will now seek to teach using various methods that meet the "educational needs" of the student. After all, this should be the goal of every effective instructor.
I agree. The course is informative. It increased my awareness of the different approaches to learning of the different generations. The course is especially beneficial in revealing the attitudes of the Gen Y students. Frankly I was not aware of the effects of technology on Gen Y students. Risk takers, multimedia oriented and multiple personalities, these traits do require us to make accommodations and changes in the learning process.
