Barry Dahl: "Who are these people, and what do they want from me?"

Barry's main website/blog: http://barrydahl.com (Bio page) (Resources page) (Personal Learning Environment)
Barry's e-Learning blog: http://desire2blog.blogpot.com
Embedded slides (using Slideshare.net) from the first session about generations.



Link to Prezi.com presentation about the different generations from the G.I. Generation to Generation Z. (Hint: click the right-arrow in bottom left corner of the Prezi page to go through the presentation.)

Here are some of the resources about the generations:
PRO: Millennials are (like) so totally (like) different, and all that (like) jazz.

• Book: Generations by Strauss and Howe
  
• Book: Millennials Rising by Howe and Strauss
• Book: Born Digital by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser
  
• Book: Growing Up Digital by Don Tapscott
  
• Book: Grown Up Digital by Don Tapscott
  
• Article: Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants by Marc Prensky
  
• Slideshow: Millennials, Clued in or Clueless by Carol Phillips
• Slideshow: The Millennials, Who They Are and How They Learn by Mike Muir
• Slideshow: Digital Millennials, Are You Ready? by Jessica Ried
• Slideshow: The Millennials, a New Generational Wave by B.J. Hart
  

CON: Most of the stuff written about Digital Net-Gennials is a bunch of hooey.

• Book: Generation Me by Jean Twenge
  
• Book: The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein
• Blog post: Definitions of Creepy Treehouse, by Jared Stein
  
• Article: Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace by Janet Clarey
• Debate (video): The Millennials: The Dumbest Generation or the Next Greatest Generation? Howe and Bauerlein on C-SPAN
• Blog: Net Gen Skeptic
• Chronicle of Higher Education: Generational Myth
• Chronicle of Higher Education: The Net Generation Goes to College (argues both sides)
• Article: The Young Labeled "Entitlement Generation" by Martha Irvine
  
• Slideshow: Are BCIT Student Digital Learners? by Bullen, Qayyum, and Morgan
  

Break Time --------

During part 2, we looked at a few different Web 2.0 tools:

• My mindpamp of Web 2.0 tools (click on plus signs to expand each node)
• We talked about wikis - you're looking at one right now, and MCAE members can use this as they like for MCAE information and communications.
• I demonstrated Zoho Sheet, a free web-based spreadsheet that has much (but not all) of the same functionality as Microsoft Excel.
• I showed part of a screen capture video created with Screencastle.
• I used Netvibes as an example of how you can easily aggregate news items, blog posts, videos, podcasts, tweets (from Twitter), and many other kinds of content from the web.
• I mentioned Michael Wesch's use of Netvibes with his students at Kansas State. Here's one of them.
  

For many other Web 2.0 resources, visit any of the following:

• Free web-based tools site - click on the page links on the right-hand side.
• Barry's list of tools: Personal Learning Environment
• Wiki for presentation titled: It's NOT my Job to Entertain Students!
• Barry's Twitter page
• Users and Uses of Blogs in Higher Education