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The International Journal of Learning: Annual Review
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About: The International Journal of Learning: Annual Review is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Higher education & Literacy. It has an ISSN identifier of 1447-9540. Over the lifetime, 1547 publications have been published receiving 7006 citations.
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TL;DR: In the old times, the craft knowledge of the workers was removed from the workers' heads and bodies and placed into the science of work, the rules of the workplace, and the dictates of managers and bosses.
Abstract: THE OLD CAPITALISM Before I talk about new literacies for new times, let me start with old literacies for old times. First, by old times I mean the old capitalism (industrial capitalism, Fordism). The old capitalism (Drucker, 1999; Kanigel, 1997) is a social formation that has been transformed by our current high-tech, global new capitalism (see Castells, 1996; Gee, Hull, & Lankshear, 1996; Greider, 1997; Reich, 1992; Smith, 1995). The old capitalism did not disappear, it still exists as a foregrounded formation in the “developing world” and as a backgrounded formation in the “developed world” (Drucker, 1999; Greider, 1997). The old capitalism was born in warfare between workers and bosses over how work would be done and how fast it should be carried out (Kanigel, 1997). In the end, the workers lost the battle. Thanks to “Taylorism,” work came to be carried out at a pace and in terms of procedures determined by a “science” of efficiency, not by workers themselves. The craft knowledge of the workers was removed from the workers' heads and bodies and placed into the science of work, the rules of the workplace, and the dictates of managers and bosses. A top-down system was created in terms of which knowledge and control existed at the top (the bosses) and not at the bottom (the workers). Middle managers conveyed and mediated knowledge, information, and control between the top and the bottom.
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TL;DR: Learning Preferences of Millennial College Students as mentioned in this paper studied the attitudes of students from a small private college and measured the style of learning they use, prefer and which method has resulted most successfully in their acquiring and retaining knowledge.
Abstract: Learning Preferences of Millennial College Students The Millennial generation is the most computer literate generation to enter the workforce. Also known as the Net Generation, those born from 1981- 2001 have been raised in an era of instant access. Their learning and communication style is through multi-media. The common method of contact is text messaging and instant messaging as well as cell phones. Learning has even moved into web-based tools such as web-ct, online courses, online journals and i-pod downloads. The different environment of this technologically enhanced generation will be important to understand for their learning in school as well as the workplace. The attitudes of Millennial generation students from a small private college were measured regarding the style of learning they use, prefer and which method has resulted most successfully in their acquiring and retaining knowledge. Their views give an illustration of the outlook of this generation. Anyone who has stood in front of a classroom of Millennial, or any students, has been concerned with if and how his or her pupil is learning the material. There may even be a question if the student is truly taking notes on the shielded, black box that sits on his or her desk or simply checking on the plans among friends for the evening’s activities. Trying to stimulate the learning process for the generation that grew up with the Internet is a challenge.
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