Comments on: Connecting to the Millennium Generation – Trudy Sweeney EChO Keynote http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2008/03/01/connecting-to-the-millennium-generation-trudy-sweeney-echo-keynote/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Blogging About Today’s Student « Virtual High School Meanderings http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2008/03/01/connecting-to-the-millennium-generation-trudy-sweeney-echo-keynote/comment-page-1/#comment-13759 Blogging About Today’s Student « Virtual High School Meanderings Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:32:51 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2008/03/01/connecting-to-the-millennium-generation-trudy-sweeney-echo-keynote/#comment-13759 [...] Connecting to the Millennium Generation - Trudy Sweeney EChO Keynote from Teaching Generation Z [...] [...] Connecting to the Millennium Generation – Trudy Sweeney EChO Keynote from Teaching Generation Z [...]

]]> By: Graham Wegner http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2008/03/01/connecting-to-the-millennium-generation-trudy-sweeney-echo-keynote/comment-page-1/#comment-13421 Graham Wegner Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:08:21 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2008/03/01/connecting-to-the-millennium-generation-trudy-sweeney-echo-keynote/#comment-13421 I've got the audio ready to put up if you're interested - then you wouldn't be relying on my spotty reporting. Her keynote was to junior primary and preschool educators to set the correct context. As usual, you raise ideas and questions that many of us (including those of us who choose to present) have not really delved into in any deep thought. Trudy, of course, may have done so - I am not being presumptuous that just because something wasn't expanded upon in a presentation that it hasn't been considered in depth by the presenter. Thanks for dropping by. You may find my presentation to be even less insightful when I post it but it is just an introduction to a couple of tools that might get non-web-savvy educators looking and connecting online. I’ve got the audio ready to put up if you’re interested – then you wouldn’t be relying on my spotty reporting. Her keynote was to junior primary and preschool educators to set the correct context. As usual, you raise ideas and questions that many of us (including those of us who choose to present) have not really delved into in any deep thought. Trudy, of course, may have done so – I am not being presumptuous that just because something wasn’t expanded upon in a presentation that it hasn’t been considered in depth by the presenter.
Thanks for dropping by. You may find my presentation to be even less insightful when I post it but it is just an introduction to a couple of tools that might get non-web-savvy educators looking and connecting online.

]]> By: Bill Kerr http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2008/03/01/connecting-to-the-millennium-generation-trudy-sweeney-echo-keynote/comment-page-1/#comment-13420 Bill Kerr Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:47:42 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2008/03/01/connecting-to-the-millennium-generation-trudy-sweeney-echo-keynote/#comment-13420 I read some of the James Gleick book reviews (faster: the acceleration of just about everything) at amazon (but haven't read his book). Some of the reviews give the impression that Gleick thinks that we have lost something through everything going faster. eg. <a href='http://www.amazon.com/review/R1KEBKSWQZ840T/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm' rel="nofollow">a breathlessly superficial collection of titbits </a>) But I didn't pick up this message from your report on Trudy's presentation - so I'm left wondering whether it was not there or not reported on. Is it enough to just adapt to a caricature ("stimulus junkies but lack resilience") of the "Millenium Generation" through the tools listed? What are the deeper goals of the educational process? As one review said: "Nowhere is there any discussion of how we might, as a society, turn away from this trend, or even if we should. (Gleick implicitly characterizes this trend as a negative one throughout). A breathlessly superficial survey which offers no analysis or insight" I read some of the James Gleick book reviews (faster: the acceleration of just about everything) at amazon (but haven’t read his book). Some of the reviews give the impression that Gleick thinks that we have lost something through everything going faster. eg. a breathlessly superficial collection of titbits ) But I didn’t pick up this message from your report on Trudy’s presentation – so I’m left wondering whether it was not there or not reported on.

Is it enough to just adapt to a caricature (“stimulus junkies but lack resilience”) of the “Millenium Generation” through the tools listed? What are the deeper goals of the educational process?

As one review said:
“Nowhere is there any discussion of how we might, as a society, turn away from this trend, or even if we should. (Gleick implicitly characterizes this trend as a negative one throughout). A breathlessly superficial survey which offers no analysis or insight”

]]> By: Judy http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2008/03/01/connecting-to-the-millennium-generation-trudy-sweeney-echo-keynote/comment-page-1/#comment-13419 Judy Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:31:09 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2008/03/01/connecting-to-the-millennium-generation-trudy-sweeney-echo-keynote/#comment-13419 Well done Graham on getting things up so quickly - web 2 rocks Judy Well done Graham on getting things up so quickly – web 2 rocks
Judy

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