As a college student AND dedicated member of the millennial generation, all I can say is – I COULDN’T DISAGREE MORE! You are being completely ignorant of how technology and the cultural has evolved at extraordinary rate for my generation. Hell, even as I write this I’m on a laptop in an Adolescent Development class, listening to a lecture. Yes – She is reiterating the media feedback loop and it’s effects of female sexuality/projections of female body image….
My point:
My generation – the millennials – is a group hardwired for multitasking. We can check our e-mail, watch youtube, write blog posts, check facebook, listen to your lecture of Madison, prepare a studyguide for the up coming exam, and IM about what band we’re going to see while drinking a pitcher of beer (and probably talking about your lecture on Madison) later in the evening. It sounds as if you are more bitter about how college culture has evolved and are taking your frustrations out on your hardworking, seemingly apathetic yet truly engaged students.
It’s a generational thing. The other day I did a video seminar and my professor said she couldn’t concentrate on the professor because there was such a flurry of instant messaging from other participants in the conference. I completely understood all of the seminar lecture material PLUS I was able to enhance my insight by the thoughtful, profound discourse of instant messaging accompanying seminar.
To call our generation stupid or disregard our capacity for being engaged just because we’re amazing multitasking is absurd. More and more professors, teachers, administrators, etc, are doing it everyday, simply because they do not understand the pace we’re working at. Read more at The College Voter, a national political website by college students, for college students:
http://www.thecollegevoter.com
Be sure to see the feature where we call David Brooks out for being completely ignorant of our generation’s potential.
