Today's generation recognizes that learning is enhanced when collaboration is a strategy. They are not interested in any lecture beyond 10 minutes; lectures beyond 10 minutes result in a negative effect on achievement.
We know that this generation has high expectations of the school they attend, and they learn different from generations before them. Today's learner is more globally educated, driven by technology and they will be the highest educated population ever to come out of school.
They might be highly educated, but they are not happy with the generation that is now their grandparents who have left them an incredible debt. This new generation experiences the highest poverty rate and is inheriting $30K of debt per person (every man, woman and child) in U.S. This is the first generation that will not live as long as their parents, they are fed up with partisan politics, and they will be vocal.
My prediction: if we give this generation our very best, this will be the next "Greatest Generation."
