What are the ages of the generations in 2025? If you do some research, you’ll find that dates overlap and names vary. While we hear generational terms all the time, the definitions are not official. However, based on widespread consensus as well as new Gen Z analysis by the Pew Research Center, and the one generation defined by the U.S. Census Bureau (Baby Boomers), these are the birth years and ages of the generations you’ll want to use in 2025.
Note: Generation names are based on when members of that generation become adults (18-21).
Generations defined by name, birth year, and ages in 2025
Source: beresfordresearch.com/age-range-
The new grads now entering your workforce are among the first of about 67 million people, born between 1995 and 2010, who comprise Generation Z. Different from Millennials who came of age at the same time as the Internet, social media, and smartphones, Gen Z was born into a world where connected technologies were no longer novel but normal. Akin to the generations before them, Gen Z members are thirsty for information, even more adept with technology, and thrive in collaborative environments. The Gen Z learning style is different.
With 10,000 baby boomers reaching retirement age every day and unemployment at historic lows, Gen Z is beginning to fill huge gaps in the workforce. That means that employers are already planning how to adapt training and development for this new generation of workers to keep pace in today’s agile work environments.
What’s guiding these emerging training and development strategies for a new generation?
How does Gen Z learn?
To understand how Gen Z learns, we need only look at education trends over the past decade.
Shaped largely by innovative educators taking advantage of new digital technologies, teaching methodologies began to shift as early as the mid-2000s from exclusively traditional offline instruction via lectures and textbooks to today’s predominantly blended learning approaches that leverage digital media to make more time for active learning during class.
The quintessential example of this is the flipped classroom. In the flipped classroom, teachers record videos of their lectures that they assign to students as homework before class. Class time is then used for active learning activities such as working through problems or class discussions.
Compared to previous generations, Gen Z learning has generally been structured to be more active, incorporate more on-demand online learning tools, and be more collaborative.
Gen Z learns by doing
Gen Z students are anything but passive learners. Theirs is a generation that thrives when given a challenging, fully immersive educational experience in which they can work through problems and really test their knowledge. They are very interested in steering their own personalized learning experiences and incorporating information from a variety of resources and materials.
Source: panopto.com/blog/rethinking
