millennials

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Jonah Lehrer’s blog on emerging cognitive research is just amazing. So much of this has to do with learning, our students, ourselves, and human behavior: http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/

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We know that teens make poor decisions, can be impulsive, take risks, and so on. The presentation below explains why. Emerging science shows us that the brain continues development through […]

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OK, this is truly scary, from a study of 8-18 y.o.’s by the Kaiser Family Foundation: “A national survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that with technology allowing nearly […]

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Howe and Strauss have laid out 7 characteristics of the millennial generation. Three of these 7  seem to speak to some of the challenges college instructors are facing. While the […]

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The student body is 42% full-time and 58% part-time The student body is 40% male and 60% female – the highest percentage of male student enrollment in 10 years There […]

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In this edition, Kay McClenney, head of CCSSE, talks about CC’s reliance on adjuncts, and also comments on the influx of younger home-schooled or gifted students. Answers About Community Colleges, […]

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Stephanie Vie is making a strong case for peeking over the wall between the LMS as acceptable tech medium for student learning, and social networking sites — deemed by many […]

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Interesting… “For example, in focus groups, students consistently say that colleges should eliminate online orientation, which they criticize as “impersonal,” but they reliably applaud online tutoring. Why? It is difficult […]