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Teaching the 21st Century Student:
Knowing the Mindset of
the Millennial Student
A Student-Centered Approach
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Kathleen McNally
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Welcome and
Introductions
Generation Jabber…
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 Warm up: Take a moment and think about
how you would answer the following
questions:
1. Who do you feel is a hero and is a public
figure?
2. One of your favorite all-time songs?
3. A historical event that resonates with
you?
 Introduce yourself to your table mates
and share your three answers
Who sings for your generation?
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As a group, choose a
name from pop
culture for your
table!
What is a Generation?
“In addition to coincidence of birth,
a generation is also defined by
common tastes, attitudes, and
experience….Those times encompass
a myriad of circumstances –
economic, social, sociological,
and, of course, demographic.”
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Zemke, R. Raines, C., & Filipczak, B. (2000). Generations at work:
Managing the clash of Veterans, Boomers, Xers, and Nexters in
your workplace. New York: Amazon.
Objectives for Session
 Examine millennial students and generational
impact on learning
 Generate a checklist that reflects millennial
mindsets to impact instructional design
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Table Teams… Role ‘Em
 Facilitator ~ keeps it all moving and smooth
 Recorder ~ captures all discussions and
decisions in writing for group members
 Reporter ~ oral sharing of work to the larger
group when requested
 Time Keeper ~ keeps group on track and
within assigned times
 Materials Master! ~ fetches (and returns) all
needed materials/supplies
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The Mindset of a Millennial
 As a table team, brainstorm descriptors of
millennial students…
 Consider attitudes, loves, media, heroes, and
historical factors
 Use provided handout to capture ideas—be ready
to share results with larger group
 Timeframe: 12 minutes
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Team Table Talk: Millennial
Mindset!
 Who are their heroes?
 Media: What they watch,
play, use to communicate?
 History ~ Influential Events
and Experiences
 Attitudes ~ Life and careers!
 What they love!
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Trophy
Kids!
Who are the Millennials?
 Bottle caps always plastic
Generation
 McDonalds food never came in
Y and Z!
Styrofoam containers
 Google has always been a verb
 Internet is better than TV
 Doing more important than
Digital
knowing
Natives!  Typing preferred to handwriting
 Zero tolerance for delays
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Born after 1982 until
about 2000
Who are the Millennials?
 Personality descriptors:
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Special ~ this generation was wanted; family is important
Sheltered ~ helicopter parents
Confident ~ they want to make a difference
Team oriented ~ part of the group
Conventional ~ more respectful of adults
Pressured ~ pushed to succeed, report stress
Achieving ~ busy, work, sleep deprived, ill-nourished
Staying connected is essential
Reality no longer real…like e-mails
Consumer/creator blurring
Multi-tasking a way of life
We can build on the
technological competence
“Email is for
old people”
– A student
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© 2006 Marc Prensky
The World of Millennials
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 Most racially and ethnically
diverse generation in U.S.
history ~ 1 in 5 have an
immigrant parent
 One in four grew up in a single
parent household
 New examples of family—
working mothers, blended
families and divorce rates
exceeding 50 percent
 Defining moments: Clinton
impeachment, Monica Lewinsky
scandal, death of Princess
Diana, 9/11, wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq
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Thinking future tense…
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“I skate to where
the puck is going
to be!”
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Trends to Consider:
 Time compression
 E-change: commerce, Googling,
IMing, on-line dating 
 Mobile phones, organic, hot
peppers!, Nation of Minorities
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WORK trends to consider…
 The “Adaptables”
 Career Design…changing jobs
every 2-4 years (hop scotch)
 Failures at Retirement
 Flexible and Casual
 Coaching instead of directing
 Your reflections…
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Changes in Work
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Dynamic markets
Global competition
High mobility
Customized production
Innovation is valued
Cooperation across firms
Cross-training of skills
Lifelong learning
expectation
The Positives of CTE
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Students perceived four primary differences between
their experiences at the center and those at their home
high schools including:
Greater autonomy at the center to choose projects and
learning activities;
Effective and caring teachers who are committed,
passionate, excited and energetic;
Being grouped in classes with students of similar
interests; and
Learning relevant content in an interactive, applied
setting that related to a tentative career objective.
To capitalize on these positive aspects, technology center teachers
can create assignments the meet several criteria including:
intellectual demand and requiring the use of most essential
college- and career-readiness standards; involve students using
21st century skills; assignments that allow students to gain
deeper knowledge and skills in their areas of interest and talent;
and assignments with consequences.
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Goal: Hope through a
Standard of Living
 Labor Market
Advantage
 Academic
Readiness
 Open doors for
future economic
security
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Students as Customers
Reflect and examine out
instructional practices
based on students’
needs as millennials,
their experiences, and
feedback
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Brainstorm Implications for
Instruction
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High Expectations
Motivation Preferences/Active Learning
“New” 21st Century Skills
Social Networking
Adventure, Imagination, Innovation
Learner Control/Centered
Feedback
Information Age
Q: What are instructional actions?
Table Talk Swap
 High Expectations
 Motivation
Preferences/Active
Learning
 “New” 21st Century Skills
 Social Networking
 Adventure, Imagination,
Innovation
 Learner
Control/Centered
 Feedback
 Information Age
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 Each table tackle a
theme…generate a list
to share (8 min.)
 Tables will swap ideas
with another table (12
min.)
 Highlights shared with
larger group (8 min.)
Timeframe = 28 minutes
This is How We Teach ~ High
Expectations…
• Set and communicate what students
will do
• Include a range of questions ~ higher
order of Blooms Taxonomy
• Strive for quality results—mastery,
redoing work with feedback
• Create situations where students need
to think critically
• Other…
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Each table tackle a
theme…generate a list to share
timeframe = 9 minutes
Millennial Enhancement: High
Expectations
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• Set and communicate what students
will do
• Include a range of questions ~
higher order of Blooms Taxonomy
• Strive for quality results—mastery,
redoing work with feedback
• Create situations where students
need to think critically
• Other…
Millennial Enhancement: Motivation
Preferences ~ Action Learning
• Tapping learning styles
• People and relationships ~ help someone
• Things and functions ~ design in, fix it…
• Creativity and expression ~ draw, paint,
perform, express…
• Discovery and process ~ observe, explore,
validate …
• Role Plays!
• Reflection activities
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Millennial Enhancement: 21st Century
Skills for the Millennials
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 Networking globally ~ maintain
intimacy
 Managing abundance of information
 Information literacy
 Search skills
 Finding truth
 Authenticity of information
 Creating community ~ creating
caring relations
 Learning to listen
 Achieving social justice ~ building a
good society
Millennial Enhancement: Social
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 Creating “bonding” opportunities
 Team work (collaborative
assignments)
 Connections to greater
world/community
 Identify, practice and reflection on
skills
 Use of technology ~ social
appropriateness
Millennial Enhancement: Adventure,
Imagination, Innovation
 Use of technology
 Problem –based approaches
 True brainstorming (jump start your
brain)
 Use of pop culture
 Invent ideas ~ construct positions,
fabricate solutions
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Millennial Enhancement: Learner
Control/Centered
Choice of approach
Learn to manage time and tasks
Peer-to-peer methods
Autonomy through project decisions
Using visual barometers
~agree/disagree
 Debate ~ devil’s advocate
 Jigsaws, free writing, literature
circles
 Photo albums, newspapers, portfolios
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Millennial Enhancement: Feedback
Prompt
Frequent
Constructive
Help reflect and know the strengths
and weaknesses of themselves
 Use of mentors
 Provide sense of relevancy
 PIE method ~ Praise, Improvement,
Encourage
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Millennial Enhancement: Information Age
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TQM ~ data to inform decisions
Ask great questions
Analysis
Researcher
Forecasting
Hypothesis-testing
Model building
System thinking
“Infotectives”
Millennial Enhancement: Others?
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Purpose
Sense of humor
Provide social and emotional support
Competition
Roll your Enhancements!
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 Each team will choose an
activity card (includes a
basic description of a
CTE activity)
 Team challenge… make
enhancements from your
checklist
 Roll your dice to
determine how many… #1
and #6 don’t count! 
Give a hand…all of them!
 Each table will “cash in” their
hands:
 Commendation for a team’s efforts
 Suggested addition to the
enhancements.. Piggyback! 
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Teaching the 21st Century Student:
Knowing the Mindset of
the Millennial Student
A Student-Centered Approach
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Kathleen McNally
Technology Centers That Work