Third Millennium Kids

📖 The Scoop

"A great book. Hits the nail on the head." -Esther Wojcicki, 40-year teacher, Author "How to Raise Successful People"

"Brilliantly fundamental. Wonderfully different. Surprisingly practical." - Michael Fullan, Emeritus Professor, OISE/University of Toronto

"Powerful and forward thinking. Replete with opportunity and exciting possibility for young people." - D.S. Engle, Superintendent of Schools (Ret.)

In THIRD MILLENNIUM KIDS, Marc Prensky offers a hopeful, optimistic and uplifting take on today's young people that starkly rebuts the doom and gloom, anxiety filled view of many others. An unabashed optimist about ALL our young people and where they can be in 20 years, Prensky offers a clear plan for getting them there. That plan involves HIGH ENTHUSIASM, LOW STRESS, MORE IMAGINATION, BETTER SELF-KNOWLEDGE, and CONTINUOUS REAL-WORLD PROJECTS WITH IMPACT.

Kids today have little enthusiasm for what we now offer them, Prensky argues. They have extremely high stress, little imagination coming out of them, minimal self-knowledge-and they get to do almost no accomplishment with any real-world impact. Parents and teachers are constantly pulling them back to a past that the adults want-but that no longer makes sense for them.

in a time where more and more young people say they want to change their world-and with the capabilities they now have can-we rarely let our young people to accomplish anything that makes their real world better. In an age when young people are gaining vast new powers to realize their dreams, fix problems, help others, and accomplish positive things for the world-too many adults want to take their their passports to their future world-i.e. their phones-away.

This book is a guide to doing things differently. It contains over 100 short-term and long term action plans for adults.

Marc Prensky, coiner of the term "digital native," is the gold-prize-winning author of a dozen books and a keynote speaker in 50 countries. He argues, persuasively, that our goal should be to help all kids adapt to and thrive in their new third millennium environment-and not our past. The antidote to today's high anxiety and stress in kids, he argues, is finding each kid's intrinsic positive enthusiasm and imagination-and bringing it out. That means connecting young people to positive projects about which they say, "Hell Yes!-Sign me up!"

This book is a must-read for all parents, teachers and policy makers worried about today's young people and searching for a different, more optimistic path. Based on his many years of conversations with young people all over the world, Prensky offers a fresh analysis of the cross-millennial conundrums of our times. Humans, says Prensky, are evolving to fit a new and very different third millennium environment. They require a new "growing up path"-and Prensky provides it. The book brings valuable enlightenment to anyone interacting with young people-or seeking a window on their future.
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There's no going back, Prensky says. This forward-looking volume helps readers bridge generations and millennia, and see how to prepare young people for the future that they will live in. It showcases the unprecedented powers that young people now possess to radically improve their world, with scores of short-term and longer-term ACTION PLANS for adults and young people. The fresh and original ideas the book contains show how to put all young people firmly on the road to becoming successful Third Millennium Adults, and to thrive in their own, vastly different, times.

"Marc Prensky's stunning book is a must-read for parents, teachers and the rest of us trying to understand just how incredibly powerful the next few years could be for today's kids-as technology-in partnership with kids' imaginations- leads them to real-world accomplishments."
- John Seely Brown

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