tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post1499594865140788820..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Focus on the locus of the hocus pocusUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-85807895582498414862013-12-27T00:38:17.473-05:002013-12-27T00:38:17.473-05:00Froderick: I AM an old fogey and I'm damn prou...Froderick: I AM an old fogey and I'm damn proud of it, too. I only started to notice changes in the student population about five years ago, just like you. Changes I wasn't expecting and didn't immediately recognize as a trend. For the first twenty years of my teaching career, students were the same, even with the rise of the Internet. But let's do the chronology. I started havingOld Schoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13699515354669340909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-62313106947333265462013-12-26T15:31:54.105-05:002013-12-26T15:31:54.105-05:00Sometimes I think if I simply pointed the ELMO at ...Sometimes I think if I simply pointed the ELMO at me and projected myself on the screen, they would pay more attention to me that way than me in person. I'm going to try it in January! The Contemplative Cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02088570661592922436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-16158145256697926202013-12-26T13:33:13.198-05:002013-12-26T13:33:13.198-05:00"The Shallows" by Nicholas Carr, is a mo..."The Shallows" by Nicholas Carr, is a more recent reference on this phenomenon. Another is "Alone Together," by Sherry Turkle. Another is "The Dumbest Generation," by Max Bauerlein.<br /><br />And now, it being the day after Christmas, I am going to go outside and play!Froderick Frankenstien from Fresnohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11653942918068535424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-41907829886067332162013-12-26T13:21:04.946-05:002013-12-26T13:21:04.946-05:00It's easy to criticize this post as an old fog...It's easy to criticize this post as an old fogey with the time-worn complaint, "Those darn kids these days." There is something new under the Sun, however: modern electronic communications.<br /><br />It's been going on for quite some time now. In his 1985 book "Amusing Ourselves to Death," Neil Postman lamented about how television has turned nearly every aspect of Froderick Frankenstien from Fresnohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11653942918068535424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-11862475474402307752013-12-26T12:55:26.834-05:002013-12-26T12:55:26.834-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Froderick Frankenstien from Fresnohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11653942918068535424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-41682697179588822622013-12-26T00:28:11.215-05:002013-12-26T00:28:11.215-05:00Peter K: Check out this vid (if someone hasn't...Peter K: Check out this vid (if someone hasn't already posted it on this site). Millennials in the workplace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz0o9clVQu8&list=WL2A2F41AFEB187C51Old Schoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13699515354669340909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-16519063928590219632013-12-25T22:52:16.693-05:002013-12-25T22:52:16.693-05:00Yuuuuup.
Yuuuuup.<br /><br />BurntChromehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06055976331443607569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-78869848911616346652013-12-25T20:23:02.654-05:002013-12-25T20:23:02.654-05:00tl:dr ;) tl:dr ;) Middle-Aged and Morosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04046076243513948921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-50010480971425380452013-12-25T16:16:03.326-05:002013-12-25T16:16:03.326-05:00Yes.
They're used to moving ahead based on th...Yes.<br /><br />They're used to moving ahead based on the law of averages. Like their high school teacher, their professor can't fail a large percentage of the class without being blamed for it and risking his/her job (tenured or not), regardless of evidence that work at the appropriate level was required and not performed (that's now called having "unreasonable expectations"Peter Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00754472537710161295noreply@blogger.com