Thing #11, Gen Y

Although I'm usually pretty skeptical of generalizations concerning the generations (the Greatest Generation, the Baby Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y, etc.), I have to admit that today's young people did indeed grow up with certain technologies and are much more comfortable with them than the rest of us. A post on Blog Catalog ("The 5 Key Ways I Believe Our Education System Needs to Change So That Future Generations Can Succeed") sums up some of the points we've been reading about: Collaborate, stop lecturing, technology instead of textbooks, quality research instead of quantity research, and there's no need to learn the "long way."