The Mindset List, which Beloit College has been updating for over a decade, is now a book, and the authors, Tom McBride and Ron Nief, led us through an hour long discussion of putting the list to use in the modern classroom.
There were a number of eye-opening statements from McBride & Nief, including the following:
- It's not that the students don't know, but that they haven't had the same experiences
- The students assume that the technology is there and possible, because it always has been!
- Time magazine published its issue "Welcome to Cyberspace" the year most of our students were born--for them, it has always been a reality
- Dealing with technology in the classroom and teaching responsible use of technology in higher education is a recursive process
- Students need to understand that there's a difference between instant information and instant right answers
- Defining what "being prepared" means in my classroom
- Flipping my classroom so that I use lecture capture to record lectures for students to watch as homework and use my face-to-face classroom time for "lab" work, which in English usually means drafting, consulting/peer review, and revision time
Overall, the webinar was a success, but it made me curious to pick your brains and ask: What do you do to reach your modern students, and what do you think you might start doing differently?
