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"Supporting Digital Natives to Learn Effectively with Technology Tools" featured for open access

Millennials Don't Stand a Chance

By IGI Global on Apr 21, 2014
Contributed by Ann Lupold, Promotions and Communications Coordinator

NPR recently featured a debate entitled "Millennials Don't Stand A Chance," discussing the bad rap the recent generation of students and workers are receiving in regards to their learning patterns and work ethic.

Millennials Don't Stand A Chance "Digital natives" or Millennials, individuals born roughly between 1982 and 2004, are often stereotyped as being narcissistic and entitled. Some studies have shown that they lack work ethic and waste more time at work and school than the Gen X'ers and the Baby Boomers before them.

According an article in the Huffington Post last year, Millennials waste about 2 hours of work per day with Internet use and socializing; 70 percent believe they should have "me" time at work. This sense of entitlement, combined with the accessibility of technology and the constant distraction of social media, are extremely detrimental to work and study output.

Information Week recently reported on some strategies to leverage this technology addiction and engage Millennials in the workplace, suggesting: "Build an enterprise app store, gamify your company, support consumer tech." Use the technologies that engage these individuals, and invest in them. The best way to get around an issue is to use it to your advantage. And the best place to start with this utilization is to implement it before these individuals reach the workplace: in the classroom.

In the IGI Global article "Supporting Digital Natives to Learn Effectively with Technology Tools," Jared Keengwe of the University of North Dakota and David Georgina of Minnesota State University evaluate new technologies to see what works in reaching this new generation of learners. According to the article, Millenials "prefer quick results and find life easier by using Google rather than a dictionary. Traditional methods of searching information have worked in the past, but using what students know best will help better prepare students for the work force and keep students actively involved in the classroom."

This article from the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education (IJICTE), is currently being offered for open access for the month of May. Access the free article "Supporting Digital Natives to Learn Effectively with Technology Tools" here.

This article is one of the thousands available on IGI Global's InfoSci®-OnDemand, which allows full-text searching through our entire collection of thousands of research articles, book chapters, and teaching cases. Refer to the previous link for additional information, or contact cust@igi-global.com. Some of IGI Global’s other publications discussing new technologies in learning and work environments include the following:


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