{"id":17857,"date":"2014-01-17T19:59:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T19:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lern.org\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:22:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:22:10","slug":"lern-guru-in-psych-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/lern-guru-in-psych-today\/","title":{"rendered":"LERN Guru in Psych Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millennials\u00a0\u2014 The Beat (Up) Generation. That\u2019s the headline of the new Psychology Today magazine and online story that <a href=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/psych.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1132\" src=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/psych-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"psych\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>includes an interview with LERN\u2019s own generational guru Julie Coates.<br \/>\nThe story, by Abby Ellin, begins \u201cThey&#8217;re narcissistic. Impatient. And just try to get them to work nine to five. Trouble is, the conventional view of Millennials just may be all wrong. They&#8217;re charging into a world the rest of us are resisting.\u201d<br \/>\nCheck out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/articles\/201402\/the-beat-generation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the full story on Psychology Today<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/articles\/201402\/the-beat-generation\"><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nMore from LERN\u2019s Coates in the story:<br \/>\n&#8220;Millennials have self-confidence and assuredness, and these characteristics can be off-putting to people in older generations who feel that because of their age and experience young people should be more deferential toward them,&#8221; says Julie Coates, an adult-learning specialist in River Falls, Wisconsin, and the co-author of\u00a0<em>Nine Shift: Work, Life and <\/em><a title=\"Psychology Today looks at Education\" href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/basics\/education\"><i>Education<\/i><\/a><em> in the 21st Century<\/em>. &#8220;But this is not a deferential generation.&#8221;<br \/>\nTake training. When learning, says Coates, Boomers are happy to watch a PowerPoint presentation with a broad overview. Millennials, on the other hand, are interested only in the information needed to complete the task at hand. &#8220;Millennials say, &#8216;When I need it, I will learn it,'&#8221; says Coates. &#8220;If the relevance isn&#8217;t observable, their attention won&#8217;t be there. The task of Millennials in learning is to understand how to eliminate unnecessary information; in previous generations finding the right information was the challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millennials\u00a0\u2014 The Beat (Up) Generation. That\u2019s the headline of the new Psychology Today magazine and online story that includes an interview with LERN\u2019s own generational guru Julie Coates. The story, by Abby Ellin, begins \u201cThey&#8217;re narcissistic. Impatient. And just try to get them to work nine to five. Trouble is, the conventional view of Millennials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18995,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17857\/revisions\/18995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}