Hi Jodi: Overall I see two schools of thought happening here. On one hand I see a lot of discussion about how we can adapt the classroom to meet the needs of the student. On the other hand I don't see a lot of discussion about how the student needs to adapt him/her self to the needs of the classroom, course and curriculum. We look all across our society and we see our education standards as well as test scores falling to the floor. And I think our society has gotten tired of asking the question "why is this happening?" I can certainly respect it there a lot of smart minds out there who are trying to correct the problem by doing something different. but there's a lot of us out there who will harbor a lot of resentment because we had to do things in a traditional way whereas Generation Y doesn't. Generation X did not have nifty multimedia presentations or active learning systems. Baby Boomers and the generations before didn't even have computers and technology in the classroom. Heck, they barely had calculators. But the previous generations, with all those limitations, managed to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic to the point where they can put a man on the moon by only using a slide rule. They could write great works of literature that are still the basis for today's movies. Generation Y has all these resources now available to them and yet they have the lowest test scores ever. So I get just a little bit irritated when we are suddenly being asked to modify the learning environment to make things easier for them. We call a generational differences, but I have all different kinds of generations in my program and the ones that seem to do very well are the ones that came before Generation Y. So forgive my slightly resentful tone but I think the educational system is yet again being asked to solve the problems that society should have fixed long ago. Good post, Jodi. I think of a few more people like us manage to chime in on this topic, will begin to see where the actual point of contention is. And for the record, my students sign their syllbi, whether or not they have any inclination of honoring that agreement. /rab