This past week has been a whirlwind of activity. Between getting everything ready for this summer, and finishing up current programming, there are very few dull moments in this office.
On Tuesday I attended a workshop on Generations. This one was different from the one I had attended before. Although the information was the same, the difference was that this session was more about how to teach the "Generations" lesson. There were some tips on what to discuss and what to mention to the attendees. I did learn a few things though, which is always good.
- There are now five generations in the work place. This is the most there has ever been. Typically it has been only four generations. They feel this is because retirement age keeps going up, people are retiring later in life.
- A "cusper" is someone who was born right on the edge of two generations. They sometimes have trouble identifying with one generation or the other.
- A new term for Generation Y kids is "Trophy Kids." This actually made quite a bit of sense to me because what it means is that now everybody gets something for participating. It is no longer only the winners who get prizes, but now everyone does. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with that, I'm just saying that it is a trait of that generation.
- Now, this next generation, Generation Z, will be interesting. So far some of their traits include technology and social networks, smaller families, longer span of education, diversity, the ability to multi-task well, they've been brought up influence by war, the Obama administration, bail outs and reality tv.
This was an interesting topic that I may have to research some more. The first place to look would be looking into the research of Howe and Strauss (Hopefully I have that spelled right). I believe they have done research dating all the way back to the 18th century. They introduced the idea of the "silent generation" cycling. According to them, every few generations is called the silent generation. They estimate Generation Z will be the next silent generation because of the technology they all have. There is less face to face interaction and more texting.
As part of this, we also took a quiz just to see the differences. See how well you do!
Fill in the blank:
1) Every minute, _______ hours of video is uploaded to YouTube
2) More video has been uploaded to YouTube in the last _______ months than all the footage aired by ABC, CBS, and NBC since 1948.
3) It would take ______ years to view every video on YouTube.
4) There are _______ articles available on Wikipedia in more than two hundred languages.
5) The average teenager sends ______ text messages each month.
6) More than ______ pieces of content (Web links, news, blog posts, are shared each week on Facebook.
7) Among large U.S. companies _______ percent have disciplined an employee for violating blog or message board policies.
Choices:
17
412.3
2272
2
1,000,000,000
13
13,000,000
Translate from internet lingo to standard English
1) TTYL = _______ _____ _________ _________
2) C U L8R = _______ _______ _________
3) Gtg, brb = ____ __ _____, ____ ________ _______
4) may b L8R = __________ ___________
5) IMO, u should = __ ____ ________, ____ _________
Multiple Choice
1) American Eagle is ______
a - Bird
b - Ship
c - Store
2) Fall Out Boy is a _____
a - Song
b - Band
c - Album
3) Texting is a form of _____
a - Eating
b - Communicating
c - Skipping
Complete the sentence
1 ) Watergate is....
2) An 8-Track is....
3) "I am woman, _____ ___ ______."
4) Who shot JR?
Comment for the right answers!
As for other upcoming events, the first of the six Gardening Series lessons is next Wednesday, so I'm getting ready for that. The youth are going to do plant seeds in ice cream cones. The idea behind this is that when they sprout, they will then be able to just plant the whole thing in the ground because the ice cream cone will dissolve. I hope that goes well!
Well, I just finished up my last class with my after school program. It was.....hectic. But hectic in a good way. We had a lot to do and there was a lot of excitement in the air. We gave out prizes for the community service challenge. Our top youth had 11 hours in five weeks. That's pretty impressive for fourth and fifth graders! Next week I will write a whole reflection piece on this program.
There is quite a bit going on, so I should get back to it.
Until Then!
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