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Tech-Savvy Students: The Millennials

Tech-Savvy Students: The Millennials. Technology Resources to Increase Achievement Evelyn Wassel, Ed. D. August 12, 2009. Who Are the Millennials?. • Young people born between 1982 and 2000 • 70 million strong—27% of America’s populations. How Technology Affects Today’s Students.

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Tech-Savvy Students: The Millennials

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  1. Tech-Savvy Students: The Millennials Technology Resources to Increase Achievement Evelyn Wassel, Ed. D. August 12, 2009

  2. Who Are the Millennials? • Young people born between 1982 and 2000 • 70 million strong—27% of America’s populations

  3. How Technology Affects Today’s Students • Technology is allowing today’s students to be ultra-communicators and multi-taskers. • They are not just using technology in different ways, they are approaching their life and their daily activities differently because of technology. • The way that students are using technology gets more sophisticated as they get older. but do not under-estimate the younger children’s capacity for using technology meaningfully.

  4. How Technology Affects Today’s Students • 54% of students in grades 7–12 know more of their friends’ instant messaging screen names than their home phone numbers. • 67% of students in grades 7–12 go online first to research a topic they are studying. • 81% of the students said that losing access to the Internet would affect their personal lives and their schoolwork.

  5. Values of the Millennials • 96% get along with their parents’ values • 75% share their parents’ values • 78% believe religion is important • 60% engage in community service • 80% think it is cool to be smart • Today’s students are high achieving and goal oriented; they are also highly stressed and feel pressured to succeed. • 86% say their generation will produce the next Bill Gates; 67% say they know the next Bill Gates; and 24% say they could be that person

  6. Student Characteristics: Implications for K–12 Educators • Today’s students want to use all kinds of technology to help them learn collaboratively, in their own time and at their own pace, and through structured activities that allow for creativity and self-expression.

  7. Student Characteristics: Implications for K–12 Educators • These students have great ideas on how technology should be used in school, and they want to be more involved in technology discussions and issues at their schools.

  8. Student Achievement • Technology encourages individualized learning and improves overall student achievement. • Technology prepares students to succeed in an increasingly complex, information-rich society. • Technology connects students with resources (human resources and information resources) • The effective use of technology in the classroom helps prepare students for the technology-driven workplace of the 21st century.

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