Millennial Generation Are Facing Challenge
Teens reported regular social contact with an average of 20 friends, and 83% belong to some sort of social group. In a second report, Lenhart and Madden (2005) commented that teens are not just consumers of Internet content but are now actively engaged as Internet content creators. This includes sharing creations such as artwork, photographs, stories, and videos; working on webpages or blogs for others; and creating and maintaining their own websites, online journals, or blogs.
Most Millennials enter formal educational environments that are ill prepared to take advantage of the literacy and ICT skills that they bring. Public schools typically place heavy restrictions on the use of the Internet. Social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube are often blocked in libraries and computer labs. The result is a failure to build a bridge between the technological world Millennials live in and the classrooms we expect them to learn in. Such restrictions are almost always justified by claiming that they are intended to protect students. Such protection, however well-intentioned, actually fails to prepare young people by not providing the adult supervision and guidance that many of them would benefit from during their online encounters.
If there is a crisis in today’s schools, it probably has more to do with students’ perceptions that school is boring and largely irrelevant to preparation for life outside school (Howe & Strauss, 2006; National School Boards Association, 2007; Prensky, 2008). The challenge for today’s teachers, largely digital immigrants, is to continue to provide students with the legacy content of the old curriculum while providing future content to prepare students for life in the 21st century (Prensky, 2001). What will today’s students face as adults We encourage our readers to view the video Did You Know, available both on YouTube and at the Shift Happens wikispace. This brief video provides an interesting perspective on the rapidly changing economic, technological, and social environment, and the challenges it presents to Millennials and their teachers. For example, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, 1 of 4 current workers has been at their current job less than one year, 1 of 2 for less than five years, and it is predicted that today’s students will have 10 to 14 jobs in their lifetimes. Clearly, educators today are confronted with a daunting task. In our next section, we will propose a modest beginning: engaging students in media literacy activities and instruction.
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