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Earlier this month, the famous Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2014 was released. Get ready to feel old...

The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2014 (Excerpts)

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Most students entering college for the first time this fall—the Class of 2014—were born in 1992.

For these students, Benny Hill, Sam Kinison, Sam Walton, Bert Parks and Tony Perkins have always been dead.

1. Few in the class know how to write in cursive.

2. Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.

3. “Go West, Young College Grad” has always implied “and don’t stop until you get to Asia…and learn Chinese along the way.”

10. A quarter of the class has at least one immigrant parent, and the immigration debate is not a big priority…unless it involves “real” aliens from another planet.

19. They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone.

46. Nirvana is on the classic oldies station.


Go to the link above to see the full list.
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At a party a friend of mine, who is very much into retro-design style, recently hosted -a young (early 20's?) guest asked if he could use the phone. My friend pointed to the elegant Bakelite-moulded rotary phone hanging on the wall.

The kid picked up the handset and stared at the phone for at least five seconds, uncomprehendingly. Then he wiggled the little metal swingbar and paused again before finally figuring out how the machine functioned -all by himself!

It was one of the most eye opening displays I'd ever encountered.
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46. Nirvana is on the classic oldies station.

Ouch.
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On 2010-08-29 00:00, Nosher wrote:
46. Nirvana is on the classic oldies station.

Ouch.


Not the classic station I listen to.
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They don't teach cursive? Why?
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On 2010-08-29 01:17, MagicSanta wrote:
They don't teach cursive? Why?

I think the "mindset" list is premature on this one.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2......ng_N.htm

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Cursive is still widely taught in U.S. public and private elementary schools, according to a 2007 nationwide study on handwriting instruction by Vanderbilt University. It surveyed a random sampling of about 200 teachers in grades one through three in all 50 states.

Ninety percent of the teachers who responded said their schools required instruction in handwriting, the study found. Of those who taught it, half of second grade teachers and 90% of third grade teachers offered instruction in cursive.

Furthermore, the teachers said they spent about 60 minutes a week, or 15 minutes a day, on teaching cursive — the amount recommended by handwriting experts, said Steve Graham, an education professor at Vanderbilt who was the study's lead author.

"It flies in the face of the viewpoint that (cursive) is not being taught," Graham said.
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