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Full Show: Economic Malpractice and the Millennials | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com
"Absolutely. It’s been so shocking to see the demonization of public servants. It’s really part of this 40-year attack on the public. And I think the fact that we’re seeing right now that teachers, public janitors, school workers, bus drivers, cops, firefighters are the new welfare queens in our public life.

I mean, really they are. I mean, if you think about the stereotype that’s being trafficked right now. They’re talking about these lazy, you know, bloated pensions that are just, you know, cheating the system. I mean, that’s the welfare queens of the 1980s. And what has been– what’s the same between the welfare queen and this image of the postal worker who doesn’t really deserve the benefits they’re getting? These old shop worn stereotypes of race and gender."
generations  2012  grovernorquist  ronaldreagan  teaparty  democracy  money  economics  gender  race  politics  publicservants  welfarequeens  heathermcghee  billmoyers  millennials  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Les Petites Échos, The Kids Are All Right// The Meaning is the...
"In the end, the film worked for the same reasons any piece of art works: it was very well made. The handheld shots and playful editing seamlessly accompanied the whimsical pop navigations of Girl Talk’s music; the movie built up a slow, compelling love triangle between Marsen and the two nameless male dancers as they drifted through the urban landscape, meeting and parting, meeting and parting. This gave me hope: craft still matters. Despite the evening’s hispterish veneer, despite all of its Web 2.0 trappings, a piece of art must still stand on its own. An audience will still respond to quality and shun mediocrity."
reiflarsen  kickstarter  film  art  glvo  making  generations  socialnetworking  mashups  meaning  facebook  millennials  communication  sharing  inbetweeness  girltalk  girlwalk  annemarsen  2011  audience  craft  quality  mediocrity  happiness  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
Generation Make | TechCrunch
"We have a distrust of large organizations…don’t look down on people creating small businesses. But we’re not emotionless…We have anger…flares up to become Arab Spring & OccupyWallStreet…We have ego…every entrepreneur who thinks their tech startup is the best…We have passion, & an intense drive to follow…through, immediately. Our generation is autonomous…impatient. We refuse to pay our dues…want to be running the department. We hop from job to job…average tenure…is just 3 years. We think we can do anything we can imagine…hate the idea that we should ever be beholden to someone else. We do this because we have been abandoned by the institutions that should have embraced us…We are a generation of makers…of creators. Maybe we don’t have the global idealism of the hippies. Our idealism is more individual: that every person should be able to live their own life, working on what they choose, creating what they choose…"
socialmedia  makers  making  generations  millennials  2011  justinkan  williamderesiewicz  entrepreneurship  ows  arabspring  occupywallstreet  idealism  attitude  trends  passion  unschooling  deschooling  hierarchy  revolution  via:preoccupations  davidfincer  markzuckerberg  individualism  self-actualization  independence  work  labor  behavior  startups  startup  workplace  motivation  geny  generationy  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
Jay Parkinson + MD + MPH = a doctor in NYC (What's going to happen to us when we're old?)
"I propose changing our name from Gen X/Gen Y/Millennials to the Cleanup Generation."
generations  genx  geny  generationx  generationy  millennials  books  babyboomers  boomers  healthcare  jayparkinson  healthinsurance  medicine  money  income  insurance  2011  generationalstrife  via:lukeneff  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
What Is It About 20-Somethings? - NYTimes.com [This piece has popped up everywhere.]
"KENISTON CALLED IT youth, Arnett calls it emerging adulthood; whatever it’s called, the delayed transition has been observed for years. …“It’s somewhat terrifying,” writes a 25-year-old…“to think about all the things I’m supposed to be doing in order to ‘get somewhere’ successful: ‘Follow your passions, live your dreams, take risks, network w/ the right people, find mentors, be financially responsible, volunteer, work, think about or go to grad school, fall in love & maintain personal well-being, mental health & nutrition.’ When is there time to just be & enjoy?” Adds a 24-year-old: “…It’s almost as if having a range of limited options would be easier.”

While the complaints of these young people are heartfelt, they are also the complaints of the privileged.

The fact that emerging adulthood is not universal is one of the strongest arguments against Arnett’s claim that it is a new developmental stage. If emerging adulthood is so important, why is it even possible to skip it?"
babyboomers  change  culture  education  future  millennials  greatrecession  generationy  adulthood  2010  life  maturation  society  parenting  parenthood  growingup  adolescence  prolongedadolescence  childlaborlaws  sociology  psychology  us  generation  youth  generations  marriage  careers  highereducation  gradschool  intimacy  isolation  possibility  jobs  work  neuroscience  brain  cognition  puberty  helicopterparents  developmentalpsychology  emergingadulthood  self  autonomy  independence  schooling  schooliness  decisionmaking  uncertainty  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Least Restrictive Environment - Practical Theory
"I was thinking about Special Ed concept of Least Restrictive Environment & idea that many of the concepts of special education, such as an IEP, are concepts we should want for every student...
chrislehmann  specialed  leastrestrictiveenvironment  cellphones  mobile  phones  laptops  filtering  learning  empowerment  tcsnmy  individualized  teaching  schools  policy  blanketpolicies  restrictthemallforthedifficultiesoffew  millennials  technology  theyrealldifferentbutweshouldtreatthemthesame  ieps  digital 
july 2010 by robertogreco
csessums.com » Blog Archive » Generation Meh: Empathy and College Students Today
"The implications for reported low empathy findings are complex. For teachers, the Times article & report provide an opportunity to discuss these findings w/ their students. The key here is opening up an opportunity for dialog w/ students allowing them to share their thoughts on the issue of empathy. Keeping a journal that shows what kids are doing w/ their time outside school & a class discussion around their findings might also be useful & revealing to students. Role-playing is another safe & pro-social way to engage students in a discussion which, in turn, can help deepen their knowledge of empathy & empathetic behavior. While these suggested activities only scratch the surface, developing empathy & empathetic behavior is a critical skill that cannot be overlooked. If we want this depressing news regarding empathy in children & young adults to change, then we need to act now. If we don’t, as the Times article suggests, “don’t expect the next generation to sigh over it, too.”
empathy  narcissism  entitlement  netgen  generations  students  culture  ego  christophersessums  stephendownes  society  millennials 
july 2010 by robertogreco
F*** The Boomers, Screw the X-ers, Give Gen Y Power Now | Co. [Bruce Nussbaum likes his brushes broad.]
"After observing most visitors to MOMA & Met hated audio headphones--bad information, interrupted socializing & annoying technology--a group of students from Parsons decided to re-design the experience. They created a prototype iPhone app called The Museum: A New Social Experience, combining exhibition images, detailed information about the works, links to expert video conversations and consumer comments. Use it while you’re there, share it with your friends, & return to the exhibition forever after. The 19, 20 & 21-year-olds designed a better learning experience than a generation of museum designers. My thought? If they could only be empowered to design a new university….
boomers  generationx  genx  geny  fastcompany  design  generations  generationalstrife  brucenussbaum  generationy  power  control  technology  johnseelybrown  millennials  education 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Today's College Students Lack Empathy | LiveScience
"Compared with college students of the late 1970s, current students are less likely to agree with statements such as "I sometimes try to understand my friends better by imagining how things look from their perspective," and "I often have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me."
empathy  psychology  research  millennials  generations  geny  generationy  media  selfishness 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Will Millennials leave US to avoid becoming the 'chump' generation? / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
"If Millennials realize they're going to have to pay the fiscal price for baby boomers' sins, they might choose to leave the US for more financially friendly locations...As baby boomers retire, higher federal spending on Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid may boost Millennials' taxes & squeeze other government programs. It will be harder to start & raise families. Millennials could become the chump generation. They could suffer for their elders' economic sins, particularly the failure to confront the predictable costs of baby boomers' retirement. The threat America faces is a world that competes for our greatest natural resource: it's young. If we make the tax climate hellish, the U.S. is going to suffer outmigration as places like Canada, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Chile realize what an opportunity they have to cream our entrepreneurial talent."
us  policy  taxes  politics  economics  generations  babyboomers  millennials  geny  generationy 
march 2010 by robertogreco
The Coming Barbarism | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
“People feel they can rely on the irrational. It offers the only guarantee of freedom from all the cant and bullshit and sales commercials fed to us by politicians, bishops and academics. People are deliberately re-primitivizing themselves. They yearn for magic and unreason, which served them well in the past and might help them again. They’re keen to enter a new Dark Age. The lights are on, but they’re retreating into the inner darkness, into superstition and unreason. The future is going to be a struggle between vast systems of competing psychopathies, all of them willed and deliberate, part of a desperate attempt to escape from a rational world and the boredom of consumerism.”
adbusters  freeculture  geny  internet  politics  generations  generationy  millennials  consumerism  unreason  magic  superstition  boredom  rationality  mysticism  altermodern  capitalism  globalization  postmodern  postmodernism  culture  ideology  philosophy  future  music  art  nicolasbourriaud 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Millennials: A Portrait of Generation Next – Pew Research Center
"Generations, like people, have personalities, and Millennials – the American teens and twenty-somethings currently making the passage into adulthood – have begun to forge theirs: confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and receptive to new ideas and ways of living." Report here: http://pewsocialtrends.org/assets/pdf/millennials-confident-connected-open-to-change.pdf Quiz here: http://pewresearch.org/millennials/quiz/
millennials  research  pew  statistics  culture  youth  trends  generations  genx  geny  generationx  generationy  boomers  babyboomers  silentgeneration  demographic  opinions  attitudes  society 
february 2010 by robertogreco
College students today: overconfident or just assured? Regardless, they are our future. / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
"Those graduating from college soon will be in charge of our institutions. We should give these Millennials every support we can, despite their sense of entitlement."
millennials  generations  geny  colleges  universities  attitudes  confidence  entitlement  teaching  self-esteem  selfimage  self-awareness  engagement  criticism  respect  oped  boredom  etiquette  values  materialism  overconfidence  impatience  impulsivity  opinion  groups  collaboration  leadership  fairness 
february 2010 by robertogreco
The Ruse of the Creative Class | The American Prospect
"Cities that shelled out big bucks to learn Richard Florida's prescription for vibrant urbanism are now hearing they may be beyond help." ... "There is a long tradition of charismatic economic--development troubadours. In the 1990s, it was Michael Porter, a Harvard Business School professor who swept into inner cities with his theories of industry clusters. But Florida has taken the art to a new level, wielding his "creativity index" and making each city feel that, whatever its shortcomings, it has the potential to move up the ladder.
creativeclass  richardflorida  gentrification  inequality  development  planning  creative  millennials  realestate  sustainability  urbanism  geography  creativity  cities  economics  architecture  boosterism 
january 2010 by robertogreco
3quarksdaily: When the “Trophy Kids” Can’t Find Work [Quotes from the comments}
"There is fundamentally less to do. Automation does...free up labor. & w/ more people than ever, there is just less work per person. In long term, shrinking job market will cause more fundamental shift in human society than global climate change...& almost nobody wants to talk about it." "Or maybe kids who did want to be there found that adults had so thoroughly taken over responsibility for kids' performance that their was none left over for the kids." "There will be very few good jobs in the future for any but the well-connected." "The good jobs of the future, for those actually getting through the bottle neck, or "Malthusian Correction", will be in food production & if we are lucky, bicycle repair. I'm watching my nieces & nephews, well educated from major universities, shell shocked as to what to do as this thing is gradually collapsing" "What would happen if instead of scheduling or entertaining kids' every moment, they were allowed to get good & bored at regular intervals?"
education  society  children  unschooling  deschooling  schooling  schools  learning  parenting  coaching  sports  competition  future  millennials  geny  generationy  generations  boredom  tcsnmy  lcproject 
november 2009 by robertogreco
The Millennial Muddle: How Stereotyping Students Became an Industry - Student Affairs - The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Those who have shaped the nation's understanding of young people are not nearly as famous as their subjects, however. That's a shame, for these experts are colorful characters in their own right. Some are scholars, and some aren't. Many can recall watching the Beatles on a black-and-white television, and some grew up just before Barney the purple dinosaur arrived. Most can entertain an audience, though a few prefer to comb through statistics.
millennials  scamartists  generalizations  stereotypes  strauss&howe  netgen  generations  digitalnatives  truth  labels  tcsnmy  callingthemout 
october 2009 by robertogreco
Net Gen Skeptic: Evidence Doesn't Support Generational Distinction
"There is very little consensus of opinion and scholarship about whether generational differences exist that are worth taking into consideration in the workplace, colleges, and universities, and other contexts. The gross generalizations based on weak survey research and the speculation of profit-oriented consultants should be treated with extreme caution in a research and development context."
education  learning  science  digitalnatives  millennials  generations  netgen  marcprensky  dontapscott  strauss&howe  tcsnmy  lcproject 
august 2009 by robertogreco
Final words on Generations X and Y - Brainiac - The Boston Globe
"Were you born between 1954 and 1993? Confused about what generation you belong to? Read on. Everything will be explained. And there's a handy chart at the end of this post!" And see also the revised guide to America's recent generations: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2008/01/pc_generation.html
generations  genx  generationx  geny  generationy  babyboomers  millennials 
august 2009 by robertogreco
Net Gen Skeptic: More Research Questions the Net Gen Hype
"The Ashridge study found, among other things:
geny  generationy  genx  generationx  millennials  netgen  digitalnatives  stereotypes  uk  youth  trends  research  generations  behavior 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Narcissism in Gen Y: Is it Increasing or Not? Two opposing perspectives - The Jury Expert [via: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/06/are-generational-traits-cyclical.html]
"Until recently, much of the material on generational differences was based on conjecture. Authors such as William Strauss and Neil Howe (Generations, Millennials Rising) argued that generations came in cycles of four (for example, they predicted that those born after 1982 would resemble the “Greatest Generation” who fought WWII and would thus be civically-oriented rule followers). However, outside of some broad behavioral data from the U.S. Census, they had no real data to support their theories – nothing that would confirm or disconfirm the psychological differences captured in their ideas. ... much of what my research uncovered was inconsistent with Strauss and Howe’s theories. At least in terms of psychological differences, generations do not occur in cycles; instead, the changes are primarily linear, with each generation taking the previous generations’ traits to the next level."
strauss&howe  generations  millennials  genx  geny  boomers  babyboomers  demographics  sociology  psychology  youth  culture  books  research  narcissism  entitlement 
june 2009 by robertogreco
When Gen X Runs the Show - The Future of Work - TIME
"The Gen X managers who will be holding all this together will need to be adept at a few things that earlier generations, with their more hierarchical management styles and relative geographical insularity, never really had to learn. One of those is collaborative decision-making that might involve team members scattered around the world, from Beijing to Barcelona to Boston, whom the nominal leader of a given project may never have met in person. "By 2019, every leader will have to be culturally dexterous on a global scale," says Reid. "A big part of that is knowing how to motivate and reward people who are very different from yourself." ... [WoW] takes exactly the same skill set people will need more of in the future to collaborate on work projects," says Carter. "The kids are already doing it.""
collaboration  tcsnmy  generations  genx  geny  millennials  hierarchy  management  administration  demographics  generationx  generationy  training  leadership  wow  workforce  education  future  business  work  socialmedia  gaming  games  videogames 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Weblogg-ed » The Future of My Kids’ Work
"Which would seem to me to suggest that we need to create a more flexible, more freelance, more collaborative learning experience for my kids, right? If as the article states fully 40% of the US workforce is predicted to be independent contractors by 2019, shouldn’t we be rethinking what it means to prepare them for that?
tcsnmy  schools  learning  education  workforce  future  willrichardson  children  millennials  generations  freelance  collaboration  projectbasedlearning  flexibility  change  reform  genx  geny  generationy  generationx  boomers 
june 2009 by robertogreco
The Way We'll Work - The Future of Work - TIME [via: http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/the-future-of-my-kids-work/]
From the cover: "Throw away the briefcase: you’re not going to the office. You can kiss your benefits goodbye too. And your new boss won’t look much like your old one. There’s no longer a ladder, and you may never get to retire, but there’s a world of opportunity if you figure out a new path." ... and from the intro ... "We will see a more flexible, more freelance, more collaborative and far less secure work world. It will be run by a generation with new values — and women will increasingly be at the controls. Here are 10 ways your job will change. In fact, it already has. Here are 10 ways your job will change. In fact, it already has. 1 High Tech, High Touch, High Growth; 2 Training Managers to Behave; 3 The Search for the Next Perk; 4 We're Getting Off the Ladder; 5 Why Boomers Can't Quit; 6 Women Will Rule Business; 7 It Will Pay to Save the Planet; 8 When Gen X Runs the Show; 9 Yes, We'll Still Make Stuff; 10 The Last Days of Cubicle Life" [pay particular attention to 4, 8, and 10]
future  work  collaboration  tcsnmy  boomers  babyboomers  change  generations  generationx  generationy  geny  genx  millennials  productivity  trends  workforce  freelance  technology  society  culture  business  employment  careers  economics  healthcare  benefits  leadership  administration  management  hierarchy 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Colby Cosh: Watching boomers in turmoil is worth a recession - Full Comment
"For the children of the Baby Boomers, there is a special delight in watching the world economy shake itself to pieces like a two-dollar pram at this particular moment. Our elders, who bought prosperity and nice pensions at our expense and pulled the ripcords on their “Freedom 55” parachutes without leaving any behind in the passenger cabin, are getting it in the neck just when they thought a secure old age, with money for travel and expensive pastimes, was a safe bet. I’m willing to watch my meagre savings suffer from market turmoil in exchange for contemplating the dilemma of those who are now between 55 and 65."
babyboomers  generations  generationx  genx  crisis  collapse  frugality  spending  millennials  geny  generationy  canada  retirement  recession  culture  society 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Ping - At First, Funny Videos. Now, a Reference Tool. - NYTimes.com
"And now YouTube, conceived as a video hosting and sharing site, has become a bona fide search tool. Searches on it in the United States recently edged out those on Yahoo, which had long been the No. 2 search engine, behind Google. (Google, incidentally, owns YouTube.) In November, Americans conducted nearly 2.8 billion searches on YouTube, about 200 million more than on Yahoo, according to comScore."
youtube  search  yahoo  internet  online  information  research  media  millennials  education  informationliteracy  trends  culture 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Scared Of Technology? You're Old! - ReadWriteWeb
"In fact, 85% of 18-29 year olds reported being confident about solving their device problem, while only about a third of them said they were discouraged or confused. Meanwhile, over half (52%) of adults age 30 and older reported being discouraged, 44% said they were confused, and about two out of three (67%) said they were confident. Adults age 30-49 were somewhat less likely than older adults to be confused, as just 39% said they were." This is what leads to the false impression that digital natives are somehow more technoliterate.
technology  society  culture  age  generations  netgen  millennials  pew  research  fear 
november 2008 by robertogreco
The generation raised on the internet | The kids are alright | The Economist
"Tapscott identifies 8 norms that define Net Geners, which he believes everyone should take on board to avoid being swept away by sort of generational tsunami that helped Barack Obama beat John McCain. Net Geners value freedom & choice in everything they do...love to customise & personalise...scrutinise everything...demand integrity & openness, including when deciding what to buy & where to work...want entertainment & play in their work & education, as well as social life...love to collaborate...expect everything to happen fast...expect constant innovation...2 things do worry Tapscott...inadequacy of ed system in many countries...2/3 of Net Geners will be smartest gen ever...other 1/3 is failing to achieve potential...fault is education, not internet, which needs to be given much bigger role in classrooms (real & virtual)...lack of any regard for personal privacy...“serious mistake & most of them don’t realise it.”"
dontapscott  netgen  millennials  work  workplace  administration  management  leadership  intelligence  change  internet  play  privacy  via:preoccupations  socialnetworking  education  future  social  family  digital  generations  brain 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Generational Myth - ChronicleReview.com
"Consider all the pundits, professors, and pop critics who have wrung their hands over the inadequacies of the so-called digital generation of young people filling our colleges and jobs. Then consider those commentators who celebrate the creative brilliance of digitally adept youth. To them all, I want to ask: Whom are you talking about? There is no such thing as a "digital generation.""
digitalnatives  academia  education  technology  universities  academics  ignorance  students  youth  literacy  informationliteracy  colleges  generations  generationy  millennials 
september 2008 by robertogreco
NAIS - Resources and Statistics - Hot Topics: Global Issues and Sustainable Schools [from 2005]
"This PowerPoint presentation focuses on independent school issues that are universal and global. It also presents the NAIS vision for school sustainability in five areas: financial, global, environmental, demographic, and programmatic. If the purpose of leadership is ultimately to develop and execute a vision that creates a school "built to last," then school leaders and their boards must address how to plan for sustainability across these several continua. What are the right questions to ask? What are early adopter schools doing?"
nais  independentschools  trends  2005  sustainability  leadership  demographics  management  administration  finance  us  global  technology  millennials  generations  parenting  teaching  schools  education 
september 2008 by robertogreco
How to Save the World - 12 Tools That Will Soon Go the Way of Fax and CDs
"9. Classrooms:...nothing that can be done in a classroom that can't be done using desktop videoconferencing with screensharing, for free. No travel costs/time/pollution... 10. Meetings: Same rationale as #9. 11. Job Titles: [Millenials] expect to have 12 jobs in their lives on average & work on varied projects with cross-disciplinary teams rather than in a defined role. 12. Offices: ...next generation works anywhere, anytime, anyway -- home, car, coffee shop, and there is "virtually" no reason to go into an office to talk on the phone and work on the PC
education  work  future  obsolescence  trends  communication  learning  careers  geny  millennials  meetings  classrooms  schools  titles  informationmanagement 
august 2008 by robertogreco
Throwing Sheep · Where We Started, Where We’ve Arrived, Where We’re Heading
"With a new generation of young people completely at ease with virtual social interaction moving into the workforce, it didn’t take tremendous powers of insight for us to conclude that a collision of value systems was imminent inside organisations."
via:hrheingold  change  reform  organizations  work  workplace  business  society  culture  administration  management  leadership  socialsoftware  socialnetworks  socialnetworking  technology  hierarchy  generations  millennials  geny  generationy 
july 2008 by robertogreco
This Blog Sits at the: How to be a self-funding anthropologist -""I would choose Option B: learning while working...there is also Option C: teach yourself."
"be Gladwellian: patient, calm, inquiring, & most of all peripatetic....And...be Baconian...prepared to think whatever you need to think to make sense of the evidence you see before you, even when this means breaking from scholarly & marketing orthodoxy"
anthropology  entrepreneurship  howto  autodidacts  learning  education  apprenticeships  observation  scholarship  academia  branding  freedom  life  yearoff  gamechanging  trends  trendwatching  ethnography  grantmccracken  othodoxy  moldbreaking  risk  risktaking  deschooling  socialsciences  sociology  malcolmgladwell  research  careers  trailblazing  culture  change  freelancing  socialnetworking  marketing  standards  discovery  corporations  generations  millennials  boomers  geny  generationy  design 
july 2008 by robertogreco
This Blog Sits at the: Who is the Elizabethan widow now? "Is there a group of people who by their structural location and/or generational identity who is prepared to play the wild card, free agent?...most likely...boomers in retirement
"Strauss & Howe, the students of Gen Y, insist that "millennials" are quiescent. The impulses "counter" & "alternative" do not beat within their breasts...it looks as if they may be right. No one from Gen Y appears to have risen to protest the designatio
culture  generations  via:migurski  history  geny  millennials  genx  generationx  babyboomers  widows  elizabethanwidows 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Free the Battery Humans :: Blog :: Headshift
"Business needs to be more direct, self-organising & easily scalable...right now there is a widening gulf between the way companies work and the way new entrants to the labour market are used to working"
via:preoccupations  organizations  leadership  administration  work  socialnetworks  freedom  enterprise  corporations  management  labor  generations  millennials  geny  generationy  transparency  open  connectivism  society  gamechanging  networks  sharedvalues  progress  codification  systems  behavior  human  technology  control 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Digital Natives in Our Midst | Advice and Opinion
“We’ve never before seen sub-groups working across organizational boundaries to advance the interests of the sub-group at the expense of the corporation...Few companies are prepared to deal with these issues in any comprehensive way.”
via:preoccupations  digitalnatives  millennials  generations  work  socialnetworking  workplace  collaboration  culture  society 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Millennial Backlash
"this is the largest demographic shift in history...When you have NetGens, biggest generation, entering workforce when Baby Boomers, second biggest, are leaving (in some industries 1/3 of the workforce in 3 years) – it creates conditions for change."
change  social  via:preoccupations  technology  netgen  boomers  work  millennials  geny  workplace  society  generations 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Net Gen Nonsense - "dedicated to debunking the myth of the net generation, particularly as it relates to learning, teaching and the use of technology...
"By using this forum I hope to start conversation around this issue & promote an informed discussion of strategies that postsecondary institutions can use to harness the power of Web 2.0 and other learning technologies that is based in fact not rhetoric."
digitalnatives  millennials  myth  netgen  research  education  learning  edtech  technology  colleges  universities  generations 
june 2008 by robertogreco
CBS News Video - 60 Minutes: The Age of the Millenials
"They are young adults and have been coddled by their parents to the point of being ill prepared for a demanding workplace. Morley Safer reports on the generation called "Millenials.""
socialnetworking  generations  millennials  motivation  life  work  employment  society  psychology  administration  management  leadership  workplace 
may 2008 by robertogreco
Generation Y: they don't live for work ... they work to live | Money | The Observer
"watched w/ horror as parents worked punishing hours in scramble for money & status....they have different priorities...care less about salaries, more about flexible working, time to travel, better work-life balance...employers are having to meet their de
generationx  geny  genx  via:preoccupations  millennials  work  trends  management  administration  leadership  life  culture  society 
may 2008 by robertogreco
Ten Reasons Gen Xers Are Unhappy at Work
"Corporations really need folks in their 30s to early 40s, but there is a tentative relationship at best between that cohort and Corporate America"
genx  generationx  generations  business  work  psychology  babyboomers  millennials  trends  employment  management  leadership  careers 
may 2008 by robertogreco
Features : Radar Online : A Call to Arms Against Millennials
"They're naive, self-important, and perpetually plugged in. This is a call to arms against Millennials" - rant about Millenials by a GenXer
genx  generations  generationx  geny  humor  lifestyle  work  parenting  privacy  socialnetworking  culture  facebook  millennials  demographics 
may 2008 by robertogreco
IT's Not about the Technology - Tom Austin - Web 2.0 | Fast Company
"Gartner researcher Tom Austin on why your head of IT should be a cultural anthropologist and why you should think twice before you block YouTube."
it  policy  anthropology  socialnetworking  collaboration  education  management  administration  leadership  trends  future  jobs  ict  socialmedia  networks  technology  students  teens  millennials  generations  business 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Younger Workers More Likely to Break Corporate Rules for Web Apps - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership
"As the new generation of workers blurs the line between work and play online, a study by Symantec shows that IT departments need to balance the security risks these users pose with the techno-savvy they bring to the office."
it  work  generations  millennials  socialsoftware  security  business  web2.0  socialnetworking  im  email  technology 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Ypulse: For Gen Y, The World Is Flat
""millennial generation has ambivalent, even negative, feelings about formal leadership...They prefer horizontal leadership in which everyone's a leader." It's not that they don't want to be leaders, it's that they want to (and will) redefine leadership."
leadership  organizations  management  administration  generations  millennials  politics  collaboration  change  reform  hierarchy  gamechanging  organization 
march 2008 by robertogreco
I, Cringely . The Pulpit . War of the Worlds | PBS
"the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools"
education  future  schools  reform  change  learning  technology  culture  society  certification  homeschool  deschooling  unschooling  generations  e-learning  cringely  knowledge  search  gamechanging  millennials  digitalnatives  via:preoccupations  software  philosophy  sharing  pedagogy  singularity  literacy  elearning  academia  demographics  parenting  schooling  internet  futurism 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Enterprise Wikis Seen As a Way to End 'Reply-All' E-Mail Threads
"Socialtext's president and co-founder talks about wikis as an enterprise collaboration tool and what wikis mean to companies, their IT departments, and a whole new generation of workers."
wikis  enterprise  work  productivity  communication  it  technology  generations  millennials  collaboration  tools  socialtext  via:preoccupations 
march 2008 by robertogreco
YouTube - Author Jeff Gordinier Discusses X Saves the World
"Jeff Gordinier, editor-at-large of Details and author of X Saves the World, discusses his new book, due from Viking March 31."
genx  generationx  generations  books  babyboomers  millennials  jeffgordinier 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Dwelling in Possibilities - ChronicleReview.com
"For students now, life is elsewhere. Classes just part of ever-enlarging web of activities, diversions...seek to master work, not to be taken over by it...live in future, not present; live w/ prospects for success & pleasure...dwell in possibility."
humanities  academia  attention  literature  culture  society  speed  slow  philosophy  generations  romanticism  essays  education  future  technology  socialsoftware  colleges  universities  students  youth  teaching  internet  psychology  learning  millennials  computers  life 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Getting to Know Gen Why
"An expert talks about how to understand and embrace the "what's in it for me generation" in ways that will make them productive members of your team"
geny  millennials  work  culture  society  management  organizations  leadership  generations 
february 2008 by robertogreco
NASA's Gen Y Speaks Out | Wired Science from Wired.com
"At NASA Next Generation Exploration Conference two young employees gave a powerful presentation called "The Gen Y Perspective"-- set of charts they had delivered to center management week before that made way up to Administrator's desk."
nasa  geny  millennials  generations  attention  engagement  science  space 
february 2008 by robertogreco
Millennials need to get real about work world | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Cheryl Hall | Business Columnist | Dallas Morning News
"Ad executive Owen Hannay,...placed moratorium on hiring fresh out of college w/out work-related internship or advanced degree....not lack of creative genius, technological know-how, but real-world grounding...to deal with responsibility, accountability,
millennials  teaching  advertising  generations  parenting  children  comparison 
february 2008 by robertogreco
Ipseity :: E-Learning Myth #1: The “Net Gen” Myth :: August :: 2006
"Recent sociological and governmental studies paint quite a different picture of this same generation. Often focusing specifically on the Internet, they report –similar to the sources above– that “children and young people [are generally] claiming g
digitalnatives  marcprensky  debunked  education  future  technology  myth  facts  web2.0  digital  children  videogames  gaming  games  media  television  teaching  learning  schools  pedagogy  policy  critique  critical  culture  e-learning  instruction  millennials  publishing  trends  youth  net 
october 2007 by robertogreco
Danger Room - Wired Blogs
"These "kids grew up hearing nothing but praise, all the time, everywhere. Recent childhood has been defined by ego-stroking... [They] can get disgruntled if not praised for simply 'showing up' at work," according to the report, which calls the millenials
millennials  myspace  socialnetworks  socialsoftware  socialnetworking  trends  military  demographics  generations  humor  war  parenting  youth  children  culture  psychology  self-esteem 
september 2007 by robertogreco
US Navy calls MySpace kids an "Alien Life Force" - Boing Boing
"And because the kids are such "coddled," "narcissistic praise junkies," they'll be beyond tough to bring into the military. Propensity to join the armed forces among these so-called "millennials" has dropped to as little as 3%; that's down from 26% in 20
millennials  myspace  socialnetworks  socialsoftware  socialnetworking  trends  military  demographics  generations  humor  war  parenting  youth  children  culture  psychology  self-esteem 
september 2007 by robertogreco
apophenia: "Generation Me"
"Twenge does an amazing job at outlining how our schools have become completely useless at educating because it's more important to make students feel good than to be critical of their work."
millennials  generations  books  culture  psychology  self-esteem  reviews  generationme  education  teaching  schools  students  narcissism 
april 2007 by robertogreco
NPR : Study Sees Rise in Narcissism Among Students
"Study psychologists worry the trend, attributable to the influences of schools, media and parents, could be harmful to personal relationships and American society. The study says narcissists are more likely to have short-lived romantic relationships and
narcissism  self-esteem  studies  youth  millennials  psychology  relationships  media  parenting  schools  society  education  teens  children  npr  popculture 
march 2007 by robertogreco
Has Generation Y overdosed on self-esteem? | csmonitor.com
"For some, a new study validates concerns of too much positive reinforcement of the young. Others say it lacks needed nuance."
education  parenting  psychology  children  teens  youth  self-esteem  schools  narcissism  generations  millennials  studies  relationships  media  society 
march 2007 by robertogreco
MacArthur Foundation Spotlight Blog | Mimi Ito: Do young people really take “naturally” to digital media?
"Unstructured time, friends and family who support technology-related interests, and most importantly, ongoing and sustained engagement with new technology from an early age are the conditions that produce tech-savvy youth."
children  teens  millennials  digital  technology  mobile  phones  society  media  literacy  digitalnatives  learning  education 
october 2006 by robertogreco
Spotlight blogging Digital Media and Learning (supported by the MacArthur Foundation)
"Your source for insight into the ideas and questions shaping the future of digital media and learning."
blogs  children  digital  education  learning  literacy  media  millennials  play  research  teaching  youth  schools  life  society  mobile  phones  technology  socialsoftware  socialnetworks 
october 2006 by robertogreco
Mark Prensky at the Montgomery Tech and Learning Conference - Practical Theory
"Mark Prensky is the keynote speaker. Here are my notes from the presentation..."
education  future  schools  teaching  learning  millennials  students  children  teens  curriculum  schooldesign 
october 2006 by robertogreco
The Collegiate Way: Residential Colleges and Higher Education Reform
colleges  education  community  simplicity  millennials  blogs  universities  life  campuses  social 
october 2006 by robertogreco
Scenes from the Culture Clash
"Companies are just now waking up to the havoc that the newest generation of workers is causing in their offices."
business  sociology  youth  psychology  education  millennials  work  organizations 
february 2006 by robertogreco

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