Teaching Millennials

The instructional areas of our community college are just starting to be exposed to the "Millennial Generation" and are very perplexed by what they see. Our faculty senate just sent a letter to our compatriots in other community colleges in our state to see if they have developed any answers to "problems" like:

"apathy with classroom participation and discussion lack of responsibility for outside assignments lack of etiquette toward instructors/students disregard of proper cell phone use".

Our vice-president of instruction pointed to this You-Tube video:

Her take was that those of us who are members of the "Baby Boomer" generation have forgotten that we were probably the most disrespectful, rabble rousing, standards changing bunch in a long time and that our teachers MUST have had to change things to accommodate our learning needs.

We have conversed extensively about the traits of this new generation, but it doesn't seem to have an impact with us as we continually try to "teach" using the techniques we learn best with, rather than those preferred by these new learners.
I ran across this comparison recently in an Eric document that illuminated these differences for me.

(Kiesa, A., Orlowski, A. P., Levine, P., Both, D., Kirby, E. H., Lopez, M. H., et al. (2007). Millennials talk politics: A study of college student political engagement: Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE)).