Jean M. Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University, and author of more than 180 scientific publications and seven books, will visit UNL on Feb. 8 to share her thoughts on how to reach a generation of learners brought up with smartphones.
Registration for the event, which begins at 3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union, is available online and open to faculty and staff.
Traditional-age college students are members of Gen Z, the first generation to spend their adolescence with smartphones. Gen Z spends more time online and less time with each other in person, are growing up more slowly as adolescents, are more likely to be anxious or depressed, and are more extrinsically and less intrinsically motivated. These differences all necessitate new strategies for reaching them as learners. Twenge will offer an analysis of this phenomenon, try to unravel its complexities, and offer some practical teaching and learning strategies.
Twenge holds a bachelor of arts and masters of arts from the University of Chicago and a doctorate from the University of Michigan. Her recent work includes: “Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents—and What They Mean for America’s Future” and “iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy—and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood.”
More details at: https://go.unl.edu/igen-event