Teaching Millennials

Page 17 Characteristics of Net Generation Students • Barnes, Marateo, and Ferris (2007) reported that Millennials are so saturated with technology that by age 21 they average: – 10,000 hours playing video games – 2,000 hours watching TV – 10,000 hours on cell phones – Sent or read 200,000 emails • Nilson (2010) stated Millennials have spent 1,000’s of hours Facebooking, shopping, surfing and entertaining themselves electronically (3)