Staffing, enriching diversity in the workplace, millennials working side-by-side with baby boomers on the heals of retirement. These are all common issues in our day-to-day consultation when working on projects with cross-functional work teams. The project lifecycle, the critical thinking, the process leading to the end product or solution is all tied to the diverse perspective and learned / skilled approach engaging our client teams.
This extraordinary video is from a project by professor Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University and 200 of his students. It is a fascinating look specifically at what millennials are experiencing today - in how they learn, what they do within the learning process, what is expected and how they operate in the day-to-day.
This video, A Vision of Students Today, gave me goose bumps. There's so much to understand here that for "good or bad," the millennials expectations is a complex experience of participation, evaluation, response, collaboration in real-time "hyper-speed" environments. There's multi-tasking and hyper-tasking, but has technology helped or stripped millennials of time spent taking "deep dives" in creativity, analysis and interpretation. It's a profound look at what faces millennials today. I'll be interested in seeing what comes next when they go back to the "chalkboard."
Awesome!
Wow talk about goose bumps! Great Find! So true. When preparing for my panel discussion at the Web 2.0 Tools session at the Affiniscape Conference I reflected on my time at Sacramento State. It's only been 3 years since I graduated and I can already see a huge difference in the way things are today. Technology changes so fast and the system just doesn't.
I sum up college as a place where you learn to manage your resources in an envoronment where they make you jump through hoops for a piece of paper. It should be more than that.
Thanks for the post!
Posted by: Kristen Jacoby | December 10, 2008 at 05:16 PM