Globalization—Network Learning

 

The world has changed from when we parents as “Boomers” learned to how our children as “Millennials” learn. 

 

The International Baccalaureate Program targets Millennial Learners.

 

Boomer Learners World

Millennial Learners World

Print World

Digital Based Brain

Closed World

Open World

Tethered World  ie phones

Mobile World

Isolated  (we can stand alone)

Connected  (they have CNN and see the entire world

General

Customized—they have a choice of schools and delivery methods

Educational Consumers—teacher presented

Educational Participants—they are more active in the process

 

They live in a different world and what worked for you, can’t worked for them.

 

We can’t understand how it is for them.

 

“We are the immigrants and they are the natives of the technology world.”