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Show a mm a i ''[Millennial students] maintain close ties to their parents, are highly dependent and [are] less likely than previous generations of students to venture out on their own. They demand a secure, regulated environment, and generally act respectfully toward social conventions and mores." -Tom Bell, vice president of the Blackboard company "[Teachers are not faced with a] fundamentally new organism every 20 years, instead, human fundamentals restrain how different generations can be." - Associate Professor Monisha Pasupathi, from the U's Department of Psychology "Skills that you learn from being involved like running a meeting, delegating duties and managing a budget are genuine skills that can be used in the career fields, but students don't know it so they don't include it on their resume." - Associate Dean of Students Lori McDonald on the need for students to recognize the "transferable skills" they have learned during classes "Technology can change and it always will. If you try to be a good teacher, you can be as effective as always no matter what the technology is. It's always going to be tempting [to cheat], but if we do our jobs as teachers, we're going to create good enough assignments that students want to do. Technology is maybe giving us more challenges, but I think we can overcome them." -Assistant Professor Glen Feighery, from the U's Department of Communication "I am not of the belief that a lot of students would spend that amount of time on a class if they did not have [WebCT] to interact with. Indirectly they are spending 908 hours with me because I was on there everyday; I was looking, I was reading. I did not comment on everything but... that is an extra 908 hours that I spent with my students." -Assistant Professor Ron Yaros, from the U's Department of Communication "Young people now days...they don't even think the same way I do because of the way technology has changed." -Jason Smith, manager of the U's Department of Marketing and Communication and editor of Continuum magazine . -r['â- 'â- â- lessons | fall 2007 5 |