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ERIC Number: EJ756229
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Jan-5
Pages: 1
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0009-5982
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How the New Generation of Well-Wired Multitaskers Is Changing Campus Culture
Chronicle of Higher Education, v53 n18 pB10 Jan 2007
This article presents a panel discussion at an interactive session at The Chronicle's Technology Forum which sought to explore how new generation of students change the image of campus culture. Richard T. Sweeney, university librarian at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (and the father of two Millennials as well as four other children), served as moderator. Mr. Sweeney argues that Millennials, who were born between roughly 1980 and 1994, have grown up with more choices and more selectivity in the products and services they use, which is why they do not have, for example, a generational music. Some other traits of Millennials: They rarely read newspapers--or, for that matter, books. They are impatient and goal oriented. They hate busywork, learn by doing, and are used to instant feedback. They want it now. They think it's cool to be smart. They have friends from different ethnic backgrounds. They want flexibility--in the classroom and in their lives. They're the Net generation--kids with wires running through their veins, kids who grew up on video games and the Web.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
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