AgeVersity

Gen Y-ning

July 1, 2019 CaroleQuine

Gen Y is routinely painted as being spoiled, shiftless, and contrary. Millennials are blamed for pretty much everything–any downturns in the economy, rapidly changing social

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My Miss Marple Age

May 17, 2019 CaroleQuine

One of my students from a previous semester stopped-by to see me the other day. She will soon graduate and is amazed at how quickly

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Got Health?

May 6, 2019 CaroleQuine

This Daily Mail article reports some rather dire news for the older Gen Y’s health–at least in comparison to Gen X at the same age.

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Informal Learning

May 5, 2019 CaroleQuine

According to Wikipedia (2019), “Informal learning is “a pervasive ongoing phenomenon of learning via participation or learning via knowledge creation….” I have to admit that

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Yep. I’m tired of this crap, too.

April 25, 2019 CaroleQuine

I’ve come to notice something: Most people simply don’t take ageism seriously. I bet you know what I’m talking about. You’ve probably heard people at

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Student Teaches Teacher

April 16, 2019 CaroleQuine

A learning moment for this Boomer: A Gen Z student asked permission to draft with paper & pencil before typing-up in Word. I said

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From Conversation to Activism

April 15, 2019 CaroleQuine

Last week, a committee I chair–my college’s Multi-Generational Teaching & Learning Committee–hosted its first panel presentation. Entitled “A Multi-Generational Conversation: Classrooms, Computers, and Curriculum,” the

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Trending: Change in Perspective on College Admissions Testing

April 7, 2019 CaroleQuine

Inside Higher Ed is reporting on an increased number of colleges dropping SAT and ACT requirements as part of the admissions process. Reason: Diversity concerns.

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Is Your ADHD Really an Auditory Processing Problem?

March 27, 2019 CaroleQuine

This post originally appeared on my (now mothballed) blog M121 on March 19, 2015: Maybe, just maybe, the problem so many adult students have with

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PreparedU Research: An AgeVersity Perspective

March 26, 2019 CaroleQuine

The major goal of Ageversity is to support multi-generationalism in the workplace and in the classroom. The body of research into this subject is slim

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Student Loan Debt: A Trans-Generational Issue

March 19, 2019 CaroleQuine

As I have written here before, I listen to business man Dave Ramsey’s YouTube videos as much as possible. I like his no-nonsense (albeit sometimes

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White Matter

November 10, 2018 CaroleQuine

In 2014, Brown University reported some significant–yet widely unheralded–research concerning the way older brains accept and process new information: Brain scientists have long believed that

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