Views about Generation Z

As generations go by, our predecessors assume we are skipping out on important aspects of life just to get a few extra minutes on our devices. In Catherine Rampell’s “A Generation of Slackers? Not So Much”, it is said the older generations believe Generation Y is “coddled, disrespectful, narcissistic, and impatient” (Rampell 388). In all reality our generation is just doing what it has to in order to thrive in the world we live in, where technology is one of the largest parts of our everyday lives. If the older generations that criticize Generation Y had grown up in Generation Y they would realize the world we live in requires the use of technology. The advancement of society with technology has shaped Generation Y to be the people that they are, relying on technology; however, older generations believe Generation Y is lazy.

The purpose of this news article was to bring light to a topic that adults and non-millennials probably would not comprehend and or understand otherwise about the current generation and what they gravitate towards. Examples of this could be an elderly parent or grandparent wondering why their child/grandchild loves social media so much or a young person being curious of which app they use the most. The article is mostly focused around college and high school students. The research study further goes on to explain why this trend is happening through questions, graphs, and exact numbers. It goes on

He says that while Gen Z can take in a lot of information very quickly due to this technological upbringing they also lose interest extremely quickly. Also, they tend to be more private with this technology than millennials were, rather than posting everything online they are more likely to use more anonymous apps.

Technology has advanced a lot more in the past century than it has over a million years. There is millions of new advancements found every day, however, this is making the younger generation a lot less knowledgeable. In the book The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerkein, it states that the teens today are the dumbest generation to live on the planet. It is commonly believed that the young generation is the least knowledgeable generation because of their great reliability on technology, constant distraction by technology, and negative media influences. Although technology helps to make one’s everyday life a lot easier, it is taking away one’s intelligence.

The world is fast changing. Everyone is capitalizing on technology. Every sector is technologically-driven and this goes to education sector as well. Because of technology, teaching methodology has to adapt so that it can makes sense to the Generation Z students. In general, the Generation Z or simply iGeneration are those born between 1995 – 2014 (Randstad, 2016). The iGeneration craves for regular and technology-enhanced learning opportunities. They look for educational opportunities that use visually enhanced methods of teaching (Cooks, 2015).

Throughout Kathryn Tyler’s article, “The Tethered Generation,” she discusses the effects of technology and helicopter parents on the millennial generation. Tyler believes that technology has became an easy way for parents to continue to watch over their children as they age (Tyler 478). Tyler also says technology is helping oppressive parents continue to smother their children and that people in the millennial generation are not becoming adults in every aspect of life in the time frame they should be (478). An enormous factor of growing up is being able to make mistakes and figure out problems and solutions alone. This is being taken away by cellphones because young adults constantly have a lifeline to call or text, such as their parents who help solve their problems. As Kathryn Tyler explains in relatable ways throughout her article, technology and helicopter parents are a concerning issue for our future because they prevent young adults from gaining the necessary skills needed to become prominent and responsible adults.

During Kathryn Tyler’s first section she talks about how millennials are connected and how the connectivity of technology has changed our generation. One of her first points in this section was about how students today are able to talk with their parents while away from college, “Now, students may be going across the country, but they call their parents on the cell phone three to five times per day” (Tyler 478). She really emphasizes the difference between the generation from today and the previous generation, “Years ago, most college dorm rooms had one land line, and, if parents were lucky, kids called home once a week” (478). Right away she stats facts of the generations are changing which gives the reader a very good a clear understand of how

We often hear “this generation has it easy with all this technology!”, but is that really the case. Not too many years ago devastation struck our country more than once. We have grown up in the era that is a frightful and painful time. Like the article, “The Why-Worry Generation” By Judith Warner, which stated “This annoying yet admirable ability to stay positive in a depressing and frightening time has nothing to do with the parents. Perhaps it's a result, as some long-term observations of this generation have suggested, of growing up in an era of almost unremitting ambient anxiety:school years spent in the shadow of Columbine, 9/11 and, lately, widespread parental job losses”(Warner). I think this is true that this is still impacting our lives today. Since the technology has evolved, we can know any piece of news at any time. That creates a worried life for some people, knowing that around the world and even here there are terrible things that

The middle-aged group of society are the ones who greatly reminisce on a time with fewer forms of technology. (ButtePatil, screen 2) They grew up in a time where there was technology such as house phones, televisions, and microwaves; all of which their children take for granted. This generation is used to hearing that they should not spend so much of their time on social media. Childhood is a short time in life that we will be missed in older age; therefore, a cell phone with a precious twitter account should not take away time from

In any generation, from the Greatest Generation to Generation Alpha, you have your outdoorsy people, your video gamers, your pushovers, your leaders, your cooks and the people who can’t even make microwave popcorn. While certain things are supposed to affect a generation’s behavior, some will affect certain people and other’s won’t. Just like we all have a different code of DNA, different fingerprints or hairs on our heads, our personalities also differ. Maybe some people from Generation Z will fall apart without their devices, but others could care less about modern technology. One cannot address a generation and using the traits given to the age group, decide their capability in different scenarios. One thing that can be done, is understanding that everyone was made to have different skills for the exact purpose of being the yin to someone’s yang. To fill the empty spaces others cannot. Whether any group of people is thought of as deadbeats or not, humans were made to succeed. I choose to believe that we are all capable of surviving with a group of other people and Generation Z is included in that.

“Kids are too obsessed with their selfies and not what is going on around them!”

The most connected, classy and educated generation ever is known as Gen Z. Gen Z is part of a generation that is global, social, visual and technological. They are the teens, the tweens, the youth and the young adults of our society. A Generation is generally described through the years of birth. For example Generation Z is 1995 to 2009 and therefore if you are born within these times, you are considered a part of the Generation. Generation Z is about 2 billion of the world’s population and they don’t just characterize the future, they are creating it. Unfortunately Gen Z individuals have been brought into the world during the times of crisis, terrorism and the global downturn and climate change. However fortunately study has shown that Generation Z is assisting human resource managers in many areas such as employment, and the evolution of the work industry. Like the unfortunate era they’re living in, there is a positive turnaround where the students of today, employees and consumers of tomorrow, are experiencing the workforce for the first time and through this experience they have found and displayed new ways that human resourcing can be publically viewed. It has often been argued that Generation Z kids are irresponsible and lack discipline, however when it comes to employment, many managers have agreed that this Generation is the best.

Schroer (2015) identifies the Z generation as those individuals who were born between 1995-2015 and approximates their populace in the sum of 23 million. Cseh-Papp et. al. (2017), state “they are the smallest generation who were brought up in smaller families as they are mostly the children of the mothers in their 30’s or 40’s who postponed setting up a family because of their careers” (p 124). Similar to their generational forerunners this generation also experienced social variances, which included:

As a teenager associated with the “technological revolution”, it has only been fate to be consumed by the constant social media that surrounds our society. With a phone always in hand, and a new app ready to be downloaded, the people of the current generation are being mind-blocked by the tweets and posts of their numerous friends. As I walk down the hallway of my high school, I see the tops of my classmates heads. Resembling a kangaroo, they are hunched over, arms bent with an iPhone glued to their faces, eager to catch up on whatever tweets they haven’t seen. Eager to see what “selfie” their favorite celebrity has posted on Instagram. The constant mentality of, “ Oh that would be a good tweet”, or “ Lets post theses pictures on

I enjoyed how the two speakers made us participate in an exercise near the beginning where we were asked to guess which generation four different quotes came from. Each of these quotes spoke about the youths of the time and essentially how horrible they were. These sentiments were likely being held by the older generations of the time period. I had given great thought for each of the generations that I was familiar with and ultimately gave guesses for each of the quotes based on the Silents, Boomers, Xers, and Millennials. It was to my surprise that all of these quotes were from several hundred years ago, even more than a thousand for two of the