Incoming student mindset...

[SteamWake]

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

[TLAM Strike]

74. They’ve always been able to blast off with the Sci-Fi Channel.

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

[SteamWake]

Heh you have a point.

I guess I overlooked posting the actual list.

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

[Ducimus]

college freshmen born mostly in 1992.

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

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

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

Ugh... now your making me feel even older

[August]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

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

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

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by August

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.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by August

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

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

[GoldenRivet]

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.

[UnderseaLcpl]

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.

[August]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

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

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

[Sledgehammer427]

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.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Sledgehammer427

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?

[Zachstar]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

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

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