Wednesday, November 6, 2019

iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids are growig up less rebellious, more tolerant, less happy -- and completely unprepared for adulthood

Book discussion on 11/8/2019

-Sometimes the authors' correlations did not equal causation

Need to remember that our students are adults, not children.
Let them be uncomfortable, sometimes

iGen -- still very important to have social interactions, but are they? 
(p. 90). They have less and less because they are on technology/social media.

iGen doesn't read as much... example of a prof. who gave an 8 popular press assignment, and the students complained about it!

Most important for my work:

Given how much iGen'ers learn online, one of the most important lessons is how to judge content.  .. .iGen'ers need to be taught about sources and evaluation."   gives examples of peer-reviewed vs. blog sources (p. 308).

 

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