Incoming student mindset...
 

A small university prepareas a 'report' to try to guide teachers as to what to expect from a students 'mindset'.

The report is actually pretty good and will make more than one of you feel just a little bit older. :|\\

Email?? pffft thats so 10's ;)

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100817/D9HL65T80.html

Correction, they can't remember when the Sci-Fi channel was good!. :haha:

Heh you have a point.

I guess I overlooked posting the actual list.

http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2014.php

Christ! Really? I graduated High school and enlisted in that year. Ok... NOW i feel old.

Ugh... now your making me feel even older :88)

You feel old? That's the year I turned 32 years old.

But that's not Sailor Steve old, Remember the Gettysburg Address? Steve was there.:haha:

You know there was a time when i hated being the young pup. :haha:

At the ripe old age of 31 i just discussed this with one of my 17 year old students.

he thought the topic was interesting and mostly factual.

we agreed that it would be interesting to see what the "gap" was like between him when he reaches his 30s and the generation of those kids who are only 1 or 2 years old today.

I'd like to see a report on the increasingly unionized, federally funded, and ineffectual teacher mindset myself. I've only been out of high school for a decade and I can literally see students becoming stupider; at least in this state. Don't take my word for it, look at the released questions for the TAKS test - http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index3.as...4&menu_id3=793
This is a standard for state academic assessment!? Really? This ****e is worse than the TAAS that preceded it and that test was, I'm convinced, made for "special needs" students. What, exactly, is a professor going to do with a student who does anything other than make a mockery of these tests? I hope their understanding of students' mindsets can overcome at least four years' worth of substandard education.

Yeah me too. How quickly time changes our feelings about that!

1992? I didn't have a grasp of the english language or how to use the bathroom by myself...I was 1 year old.

That being said, I feel far more mature than my High school alumnus.

EDIT: I also had an original Macintosh computer when I was growing up. played my first subsim on that thing.

Yea but do you wear a wristwatch?

Ouch! Burn!!!!

Trying to predict a young person's mindset... HA good luck. In my high school days mindsets were more different than apples and oranges.

1992? OMG the internet for all didn't exist then. I'm not even sure Al Gore had even invented it yet. lol


Who remembers the first two numbers of your phone number being a word? That's how old I feel.

The one I remember was CHanel 7-6013

used to, but a healthy mix of bodybuilding and farm work made it impractical

What part of Illinois? Along the river I'm sure but are you close to Hannibal, Mo?

not to hijack the thread, I'm in NW Illinois, about an hour away from the Miss and about 3 away from Chicago.

So, you were born the year I got married. I'm glad you feel so old.

@ Nikimcbee: The funny thing is that that joke is even older than me. It's about time it was buried, like any other bone.

bigger watch band, or watch belt, the leather/metal thing that goes around your wrist so the watch stays on. Take your girlfriends waist belt if there's nothing your size and improvise

1992, the year I started grammar school