University Lecturers beware...

[purplecthulhu]

Thanks to Charlie for linking to the yearly reminder of things the new intake of undergraduates have known provided by Beloit CollegeSome scary examples

Comments

[robert_jones]

Hmm, yes. wildeabandon invited some teenagers to our flat to watch Neverwhere. We were discussing politics over dinner, and attitudes to Thatcher came up, and I realised with some surprise that none of them had ever have lived under her government.

[purplecthulhu]

Indeed... What were their attitudes to her in terms of history? Was she regarded as some bete noir, used to scare the horses, a kind of national saviour or what?

[robert_jones]

Balanced. Good in some respects, bad in others.

[purplecthulhu]

Interesting... You wouldn't get that balanced a view from most of the people I know who lived under her (to coin a phrase). Maybe distance in time does help perspective.

[crazysoph]

Oh *yes*! This is one of my favorite bits of the Internet, that Beloit College list!

Crazy(and thanks for the reminder!)Soph

[kriste]

and of course, this is the first year where my students will have been alive for less years than I have spent on the Internets ...

[purplecthulhu]

Oh dear... I've been messing with the internet and its antecedents since about 1982...

[kriste]

at least I've been alive longer than that :)

[rebecacaca]

My baby brother falls into this category; the most striking one for me is that they don't know education without Nu Labour's numeracy and literacy hours.