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University Lecturers beware...

posted by [personal profile] purplecthulhu at 02:25pm on 19/08/2009
Thanks to Charlie for linking to the yearly reminder of things the new intake of undergraduates have known provided by Beloit College.

Some scary examples...

Most students entering college for the first time this fall were born in 1991:

Gene Roddenberry, and Freddie Mercury have always been dead

Margaret Thatcher has always been a former prime minister

Official racial classifications in South Africa have always been outlawed

And there are plenty more on their site!
Mood:: 'surprised' surprised
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posted by [identity profile] robert-jones.livejournal.com at 02:26pm on 19/08/2009
Hmm, yes. [livejournal.com profile] 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.
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 02:51pm on 19/08/2009
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?
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posted by [identity profile] robert-jones.livejournal.com at 03:32pm on 19/08/2009
Balanced. Good in some respects, bad in others.
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 03:37pm on 19/08/2009
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.
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posted by [identity profile] crazysoph.livejournal.com at 03:25pm on 19/08/2009
Oh *yes*! This is one of my favorite bits of the Internet, that Beloit College list!

Crazy(and thanks for the reminder!)Soph
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posted by [personal profile] kriste at 08:14pm on 19/08/2009
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 ...
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 10:29pm on 19/08/2009
Oh dear... I've been messing with the internet and its antecedents since about 1982...
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posted by [personal profile] kriste at 10:00am on 20/08/2009
at least I've been alive longer than that :)
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posted by [identity profile] rebecacaca.livejournal.com at 07:59pm on 20/08/2009
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.
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