Examples Of Generational Learning Styles

Generational learning styles are a distinctive set of learning styles that is used when dealing with different age groups. Instructors need to examine how factors such as society, culture, values and experience also inspire how a student learns best. Teaching diverse students is a big challenge, each student has a unique way that they analyze, comprehend, and apply concepts to their learning. Therefore, the instructor needs to use different perspectives in order to teach each group when presenting a project based on the comparison between older nurses and younger nursing students. In this paper, I will use methods that will help me teach both groups in diverse environments about Type II diabetes in African American youth with adult practicing

Greene, & Dellinger (2011) claims, “Differences in generational values, behaviors, and attitudes have the potential to create significant conflict in the workplace” (pp. 275-301). My main goal is to formulate each project to teach students in a way that can profit them. For example millennial students who are currently in college classrooms grew up with computers and the internet. Younger students are very impatient; they want answers and instant feedback. In order for the teaching to be successful I have to attract their attention by using the internet and their laptops. E-mails, chat rooms, tablets, smartphones and other electronics are good mechanisms for providing communication between the students so I can teach them better. They value and understand technology and have insight as to how it can be used in their field of practice, they work with their peers to complete assignments, and they have a strong preference for working in groups. Hartman, Dziuban, & Brophy-Ellison (2007) declared, “Most millennial students see the use of technology as a way to communicate, explore and socialize, as well as a tool to facilitate their learning” (pp.