Today’s (and tomorrow’s) student
Abstract:
While all students bring their own individual experiences, perceptions and skills into the classroom, it is important for educators to attempt to learn more about our students. Collecting demographic information, reviewing research on generational characteristics and learning as much as possible about the ways in which they think, learn and interact with the world can only help to strengthen our efforts as we meet them in the classroom.
Key words
student demographics
student characteristics
Generation X
Generation Y
Generation Next
iGeneration
Knowing our students
Knowing our numbers (demographics)
As crucial as administrators and faculty are to the success of an information literacy program, ...
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