The Einstein generation

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The Einstein generation

• Meet the Einstein generation
• (Jeroen Boschma)

Employee 2.0
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The Einstein generation
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The Einstein generation

• Meet the Einstein generation
• Mediasmart
• Professional receivers
• Immediate communication
• Emotionally involved
• Telescoping vs multi-tasking
• Probing (trial and error)
• (Jeroen Boschma)

Employee 2.0
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The Einstein generation

• Other name same conclusions
• The Millenials (born after 1980)
• Prefer to work in teams
• No problem with multi-tasking projects
• Social fading border between personal and
  professional life
• Use instant messaging tools as communication
  vehicle
• See advantages of both horizontal and vertical
  career moves
• (Porter Novelli, communication agency, 2009
• PriceWaterhouseCoopers, 2008)

Employee 2.0
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Some Critical considerations....
"Many people like downhill skiing, or dancing, or
wine, or sex, or food. Up until now, pleasure
seeking has always been part of our lives but a
polar opposite to seeking meaning. I fear we
are shifting too much in favour of the literal,
the hedonistic, the here and now, and losing
meaning, context and content in favour of
process."
(Susan Greenfield, id The quest for identity in
the 21st century)
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Learning
So, what about learning
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Towards social constructivism
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Connectivism
At its heart, connectivism is the thesis that
knowledge is distributed across a network of
connections, and therefore that learning consists
of the ability to construct and traverse those
networks.
Connectivism is presented as a theory of learning
for the network age, where learning is something
that takes place within networks of humans and
non-humans, including objects, and connections
mediated by digital networks and devices.
George Siemens (and Stephen Downes)
http//connectivism.ca/