Millennials Cathleen Burns CTLA - Anaheim August 2008.

Millennials

Cathleen BurnsCTLA - AnaheimAugust 2008

WELCOME to the 1st Annual

Conference on Teaching and Learning

In Accounting

THANK YOU to the

American Accounting Association

Susan Crosson and Kevin Stocks

Conference on

Teaching and Learning in Accounting…

CTLA…

Cee TooLs you can Apply

Session Agenda

• 1:30-1:45 A few minutes on Millennials• 1:45-2:00 Individual and table reflection• 2:00-2:20 Report to group

Desired Learning Outcome: To develop some tools for working with Millennials in the classroom that we can post to the AAA Commons and you can use this fall in your classes.

What Generation are You? (handout)• Silents (birth years 1925-1942) 26% of

faculty

• Boomers (1943-1960) 51% of faculty

• Generation X (1961-1981) 18% of faculty

• Millennials (1982-2002)

I am not a Millennial, but…

• I am the mother of twin Millennials. • I work with helicopter parents daily, focus

groups, megasection coordination, student government, curriculum and policy committees (lots of meetings).

• I teach Millennials.• I like Millennials. • I will be working with Millennials in public

accounting this fall.• I think we can learn something from Millennials

that will make us better.

Characteristics of Millennials

• Special

• Sheltered

• Confident

• Conventional

• Team-Oriented

• Achieving

• Pressured

NSSE: National Survey of Student Engagement• http://nsse.iub.edu/NSSE

%5F2007%5FAnnual%5FReport/docs/withhold/NSSE_2007_Annual_Report.pdf

• NSSE is the largest survey of students’ behavior in the US. Your schools likely participates in this survey. Check with your Institutional Research staff.

What do students do in class?• Digital Ethnography » Blog Archive » A

Vision of Students Today

• This is the Spring 2007 video made by Michael Wesch and the Cultural Anthropology class at Kansas State University.

“Digital Natives”

• Vs. Digital Immigrants (Mark Prensky)– Do you print out your email?– Can you edit on screen?

• “Engage Me or Enrage Me”

• CPA = Continuous Partial Attention (coined by Linda Stone)

• Marc Prensky.com

“Digital Natives”

• Managing what many faculty would call “distractions.” Distractions come from inside the classroom and outside the classroom. How do we blend learning and the outside world?

• Net Generation Learners | EDUCAUSE

Voices of Millennials (based on interviews with Millennials)

“When I walk into class, you need to move me from the ‘co-processing’ world I am leaving to the focused world in the class.

A good way to do that is to start every class with a relevant current event that is tied to the learning objectives for the day.”

• Use article from The Wall Street Journal or one of the movie clips at AAA.Commons.

Voices of Millennials

“I may be a disorganized mess, but I expect my professor to be organized, provide structure, and create an environment for me to learn.”

• Rubrics handed out with an assignment allow the student to meet/exceed your expectations.

• Rubrics: Assessment: Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment: Indiana University Kokomo

Voices of Millennials

“Don’t try to impress me with your PowerPoint skills. You won’t. And you’ll waste a lot of time trying. Sometimes bad slides or funny slides may actually help me remember the material.”

“PowerPoint slides should be clear about the learning objectives and not be an outline of the textbook.”

Voices for Millennials

“We like to count how many times he/she says…Sun Microsystems…information systems…bas-i-ca-lly. We like to make class a big game.”

Voices of Millennials

“Every time I go to school I have to power down.” (from Mark Prensky article)

Voices of Millennials

“Create some ‘drama’ with the material.”’

“…an artificial sense of crisis”

Voices of Millennials

“If a paper is returned with an ‘A,’ then I guess I don’t expect any more feedback. However, if a paper is returned with a ‘B,’ then I expect lots of feedback on what I did wrong and how I can get an ‘A’ next paper.”

Voice of Millennials

• “I like my parents. You remind me of my mother/father. I want to please you. Please tell me what you want.”

• Rubrics are helpful, especially if they are distributed with the assignment.

• Rubrics: Assessment: Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment: Indiana University Kokomo

Voices of Millennials

• Information Literacy– American Library Association Information Literacy

standards to evaluate the credibility of internet resources

http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/standards.pdf– Rubric for evaluating students’ information literacy

Information Literacy Rubric, Delaware Technical and Community College

Voices of Millennials

“We call our ‘library’ the ‘living room.’ It is a place where you go to work with your friends, drink coffee, ask someone about online resources and talk. It is not a place where you go to be quiet and look for books in stacks.”

Voices of Millennials

• “I know you don’t have office hours right now, but I have a quick question. If you are not in your office, you can text me or call me on my cell.”

• “I don’t use email. Yeah, I know that the University says it is the official method of communication.”