I recently went to an AGLS conference on Gen Ed and went to a presentation on the millennial kids. For a number of reasons, it was the best conference talk I've ever heard.
I don't have any resources to recommend in particular, but I recommend that everyone get familiar with how these kids are, because they're different from us in some very fundamental ways. And soon we're going to have *their* kids in school.... :/ m ------ "There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about." -- Margaret Wheatley -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Beth Benoit Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 5:31 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Am I expecting too much? Dave Myers recently recommended a very interesting book about this very subject, called Generation Me, by Jean Twenge. She sums it all up nicely and brings some scientific objectivity to it with studies looking at "why today's young Americans are more confident, assertive, entitled - and more miserable than ever before." This came up on TIPS when we were discussing the new findings about these entitled but unhappy students. Of course, I immediately went to bn.com (sorry but I have had too many problems with Amazon) and bought it. It's been a fun, interesting read. I highly recommend it. Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire On Nov 20, 2007 5:08 PM, Robert Wildblood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Placing blame is an interesting sport. Has anyone thought about the idea that we are dealing with the millennium generation with the helicopter parents who have never let their children do anything that they didn't sanction and who have told their children all of their lives that they are the best child in the world and that they deserve to be praised, rewarded, given a medal just because they participated in some activity? They also interfere in their children's education by telling their child's teacher that "Bobby is special and you just have to learn how to stimulate him." -- or worse. I don't blame the students, I blame the parents who have interfered with the learning process by telling Bobby that he is the best and most important person in the world and that he doesn't have to try to do anything, people should just recognize his "specialness." On 20 Nov 2007, at 11:21, Marc Carter wrote: > > Oh, my. Apparently I was wrong; some of us *are* blaming the > students. > > Well, I'm not. Social pressures are powerful. They just are. It's a > rare individual indeed who can consistently resist it, and I believe > that the reason that students *can* resist it -- when they can -- > because of people like us who encourage it. > > Blaming students for something over which they have little or no > control > doesn't change things. Working to change the situation can change > things. > > But then, I'm a determinist. :) I'm much more rarely angry at > students > as a result. > > m Dr. Bob Wildblood Lecturer in Psychology Indiana University Kokomo 2300 S Washington St PO Box 9003 Kokomo, IN 46904-9003 765-455-9483 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Dwight D. Eisenhower "The time is always right to do what is right." Martin Luther King, Jr. "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin, 1775 "We are what we pretend to be, so we better be careful what we pretend to be." Kurt Vonnegut --- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---
