Introduction: who the New Millennium Learners are Who exactly are the New Millennium Learners? Millennials is a term widely used to designate those generations born from the 1980s on and grown in a context where digital technologies form inextricably part of their daily lives. The term was first used by generational historians and sociologists Howe and Strauss (2000) in their essay Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation to describe what they thought to be a quite different generation from the previous one, the so-called Generation X. In short, Millennials are the first generation to grow up surrounded by digital media, and most of their activities dealing with peer-to-peer communication and knowledge management, in the broadest sense, are mediated by these technologies. Accordingly, Millennials are thought to be adept with computers, creative with technology and, above all, highly skilled at multitasking in a world where ubiquitous connections are assumed. This is why they are also often referred to as the Net Generation
RESUMENLos estudios PISA tienen un impacto destacable en la configuración de políticas educativas, aún a pesar de algunas limitaciones tanto en térmi-nos de opciones metodológicas como de su modelo explicativo. Cada vez más los estudios PISA demuestran cierta ambición prescriptiva a la que se da salida ya sea influyendo sobre las definiciones curriculares o bien por medio de la abierta definición de las políticas que, supuestamente a partir de las evidencias halladas en PISA, pueden contribuir a mejorar los aprendizajes de los estudiantes de forma significativa. Ambos mecanismos son analizados, al mismo tiempo que se sugiere una agenda de investigación precisamente destinada a conseguir que los estudios PISA puedan apoyar mejor los procesos de configuración de políticas educativas basados en evidencias.
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