College Student Profile
Why Don’t My Students Think I’m Groovy
This is a new article in the August/September 2009 issue of The Teaching Professor titled “Why Don’t My Students Think I’m Groovy: The New “R”s for Engaging Millennial Learners,” by Christy Price.
“My interest in this new breed of students was piqued when I began to notice unrealistically high expectations for sucess among my students combined with an astonishingly low level of effort on their part.” She goes on to outline what millennials expect and how educators can mett them half way.
Social Networking.
This page was pointed out to me by Lorraine Wochna. Each year Educause (”Advancing learning through IT Innovation”) posts its “7 Things” list — the 7 tech ideas they think will matter in the long run.
Here’s This Year’s List.
07, 06, and 05 are here, too, and I’d say they hit about 5 out of 7 for those years, so it makes me want to pay attention to the things on this list that I’m not familiar with.
This is corroborated by another blog post, “Nothing Beats Texting,” sent to me by Chad Boeninger.
This article says student-age people do use e-mail, but mostly as an adjunct to their social networking!
“On Stupidity”
This article, “An Academic In America: On Stupidity,” from The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 1, 2008, caused a lot of comment. The author, Thomas H. Benton, read several books which argued that students are not capable of making a sustained argument, believe they are always right, are unable to critique ideas or information sources, and cannot spell– to name a few of the charges.
The Riddle in the Front Row
This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education offers the thoughts of a professor confronted with the intelligent but unlovable student. Much here to think about. In EBSCO Academic Search Complete, search for the whole title, “The Riddle in the Front Row”.
“He didn’t give a damn if the other students liked him. He scratched his crotch as he walked, and his unshampooed hair resembled a ragged carpet swatch. … Yet he was the only one in class who knew who Harold Stassen was, the story of Isaac and Abraham, and what John L. Lewis meant for unions.”
Bad Parents Article
This article, from Philadelphia Magazine in late August 2008, asserts that today’s college students have been “overparented.” Having been guided and cajoled and coddled into excellence in sports, academics, and music lessons, they are unready to deal with reality. Provocative reading, and interesting discussion.
Bad Parents from Philladelphia Magazine.
Beloit Mind Set List
This annual list tries to explain the mind set of 18 year olds. Sometimes amusing, sometimes amazing, disputable, always interesting. Fodder for discussion.
Some of my favorites from other years’ lists:
They get much more information from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert than from the newspaper.
Avatars have nothing to do with Hindu deities.
What Berlin wall?
They have probably never used carbon paper and do not know what cc and bcc mean.
Books
Pathways to college access.
Katherine L. Hughes
New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2008.
Alden 6th floor: LB2359.5 .P379 2008.
A day in the life of a college student leader : case studies for undergraduate
leaders.
Marshall, Sarah M., 1971-
1st ed. Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub., 2008.
Alden 6th florr: LA229 .M34 2008.
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