Modern educators enter through their classroom doors into a portal from the past. Many modern classrooms look anything but modern. Institutional walls, hard desks, tiled floors, and the ubiquitous blackboards greet the modern student as they greeted their parents, grandparents, and perhaps great-grandparents. However, our students are not the same as their parents, grandparents or great-grandparents: they belong to Generation Y, more commonly referred to as Millennial Students. These students differ significantly from the Gen Xers represented in the new ranks of educators and from the Baby Boomers who comprise the older generation of educators (Moorman & Horton, 2007). Millennial students are "digital natives", meaning they have always been connected to the internet. They grew up with access to the Internet, cell phones, and easily accessible information. Their lives are very different from what our educational ancestors imagined when many common academic practices were established hundreds of years ago, yet millennial students continue in the sacred tradition of academia. Is it any wonder, then, when students feel disconnected and disenfranchised from the educational institutions pitted against them? What is our responsibility as educators of these Millennial Learners? What can we do to reverse the flow of the portal and project our classrooms into the future, rather than relegating them to the past? How can we get educational “buy-in” from our Millennial students? The good news is that there are many ways to achieve these goals and plenty of research to support such efforts. Why We Must Care Millennial students are in a constantly connected state. Research has shown this to be true for affluent Generation Y and low-income Generation Ye… middle of the paper… s. Monthly of multimedia activities of the school library, XXIV (5), 39-41. Greenhow, C., Walker, J. D., & Kim, S. (2009-10). Millennial students and network-savvy adolescents?: Examining Internet use among low-income students. Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, 26 (2), 63-68.Moorman, G., & Horton, J. (2007). Millennials and how to educate them. In J. Lewis, and G. B. Moorman, Adolescent Literacy Instruction: Policies and Promising Practices (pp. 263-283). International Reading Association. Morris, L. V. (2006). Have the devices changed the student? Innovative Higher Education, 31 (1). Reiser, R. A., & Dempsey, J. V. (2007). Trends and issues in instructional design and technology. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson.Slebodnick, M. and Riehle, C. F. Creating Online Tutorials in Your Libraries: Software Choices and Practical Implications. Management , 49 (1), 33-51.