In his The Big Picture bestselling author Bernard Salt tackles some important social and demographic questions facing the Australian nation.
"Dumbest Generation” Debate Featured
On September, 2008, Neil Howe and Mark Bauerlein, author of "The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupifies Young Americans and Jeopardizes our Future", debated the merits of the Millennial Generation and discussed how different technologies have influenced the learning habits of those born after 1982. The program can be viewed online here (but a good quality) or for the short interview here .
Millennials and K–12 Schools: Educational Strategies for a New Generation
In this new application book, Neil Howe and William Strauss explain how the Millennial Generation of students has been shaking up today’s schools—from hyper-involved parents to new issues over school security, from shifting perceptions of “college-ready” and “school-to-work” curricula to the struggle to get pressured, consensus-oriented students to think outside the box. Howe and Strauss also analyze the recent shift from Boomer to Generation X parents and the new Gen-X focus on accountability, transparency, and choice. And they explain still other generational changes shaking up today’s teacher corps. For each issue, the authors offer a hands-on list of “what to dos” for anyone involved in K–12 education.
According to Michael Barone Howe and Strauss’s 1991 predictions about the Millennial Generation have come true. The authors’ seminal book, Generations, “hit the nail squarely on the head,” says Barone . To view the article, follow this link.
