The article highlights the persistent criticisms aimed at each emerging generation of students, from Generation X to Millennials and now Gen Z. Each generation is portrayed as lazy, disengaged, and lacking basic skills, with a particular focus on how technology and the pandemic have exacerbated these issues. There’s an acknowledgment that the educational discourse often overlooks the commonalities in learning and teaching reinforced by decades of psychological research, suggesting that generational differences shouldn’t overshadow the universal aspects of education.
A week does not pass without my hearing about the apparently sorry state of the current crop of students.
Professors now bemoan the current crop of Gen Z students who will not read, cannot handle stress, procrastinate, lack basic academic skills.
Every generation is described as being both skilled in and ruined by new technology.
Learning is learning. Decades of research across multiple fields of psychology have shaped our understanding of the human mind and how we best learn.
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