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vnewman
vnewman
8/7/2017 6:17:22 PM
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Re: Generation Z
@Ariella.  Thank you.  Yes - thank you for that sentiment.  Why do we still pay people for the "passage of time?"  How is that a good indicator of performance or work product?  The "employment laws" are anitquated leftovers from the Industrial Age which have no business governing "information workers."

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batye
batye
8/4/2017 10:20:16 AM
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Re: Generation Z
@ms.akkineni I would also say at the end it improves over all survival skills 

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batye
batye
8/4/2017 10:18:19 AM
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Re: Generation Z
@dcawrey I would say it like they no longer live in our world, they reality is everything virtial... everything... 

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batye
batye
8/4/2017 10:15:06 AM
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Re: Generation Technology
@afwriter  yes, kids always learn better/faster/easy as older we get the less brain power we have at the end... 

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elizabethv
elizabethv
8/2/2017 9:21:39 AM
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Re: No generation is just one generation
@JohnBarnes - That's a very true observation, I think there are a lot of unnecessary assumptions made about various demographics. And while Generation Z will have no choice but to grow up in a world saturated in electronics, I know there are a lot of parents with young kids trying to pull their kids away from that world. I see many fellow-parents right now saying they won't give their kids phones until they're much older. My 5-year-old has a tablet, but it's use is strictly limited and monitored - and it will stay that way. For the most part he plays learning games on it. We are not one of the families with our noses stuck in devices as we all sit at the dinner table. In fact electronics are not allowed at our dinner table - period. And I know of a good number of other families with the similar if not the same rules for their house. So while they are growing up in a world we don't recognize as worlds we grew up in, I hope there are a good number of families fighting to keep their kids away from the cords as much as we possibly can. 

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elizabethv
elizabethv
8/2/2017 9:16:32 AM
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Re: Personal Experience
@dcawrey - My 5-year-old is at the tail-end of generation Z. He doesn't even know what television channels are. All of his shows are on Amazon, Hulu or Netflix. He's been entertained as we walk through grocery stores holding my cell phone in his hands. He could operate my cell phone and his grandfather's iPad from the age of 2. He couldn't even begin to fathom life without technology. And my husband and I genuinely try to limit his use of it. 

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
7/31/2017 10:49:53 PM
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Re: No generation is just one generation
Afterthought: also, generations tend to be made by events that hit when they were young. The GI Generation and Pearl Harbor is an obvious example, but so are the Boomers and the 60s assassinations/riots/Vietnam, or X and the collapse of Soviet communism, or the Millennials and the Sept 11 attacks. The event that defines the world for the Zs may not have happened yet (the Trump impeachment? the first terror nuclear weapon? the slide-off of the West Antarctic ice sheet?)

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
7/31/2017 10:45:00 PM
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No generation is just one generation
The Boomers were supposed to be the hippies and free spirits, then the wolves of Wall Street, and many of them were somewhat timid, cautious, save and invest types.

Millennials were supposedly helicoptered and self-esteemed into helplessness except that many of them were forced by shattered homes nad families to be independent from a very young age.

Whatever you are reading about Generation Z ("the thank god the alphabet is over" generation) is being written by people who are not them, mostly about the most affluent and privileged of their generation. And it's no truer than it was about any other generation.

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ms.akkineni
ms.akkineni
7/31/2017 1:33:30 PM
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Re: Generation Z
@dcawrey:

Tnanks. I keep hearing stories about young children and their programming expertise pretty often. I remember hearing about a 10year old kid in India who cleared a java programming test which is an expert programmers level. Things like that amazes me. That kid is a prodigy. Surely there must have been similar random events that may have introduced him to programming, or at least to develop that curiosity. 

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dcawrey
dcawrey
7/31/2017 1:18:57 PM
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Re: Generation Z
@ms.akkineni I think that's a great idea. 

These days, younger people don't fix things or use tools. Everything is digital now. Programming is a huge component of that. 

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