Joe:
You are a baby! Let's see, at 46 I took up playing hockey :-)
But I also have an 11-year old still at home and a 20-year old
and so I think I keep very much in touch--let's see, do you have
cable TV? If not, get it.
Then you too can watch MTV, comedy central, E! entertainment
network and be able to quote or sing flawlessly the intro song
to Southpark. Let's see...forget the opera, ballet, and theater,
since there are always great (?) movies to go see. And don't
forget about Pokemon.
Although, I have to tell you, I gave an assignment this week where
students read about the classic studies in mental imagery and had to
write a paper in which they were to imagine themselves in the year
stardate 26.78.94 teaching a group of gifted 10-year old starfleet
cadets about programming androids to have accurate mental imagery
abilities. they were to incorporate in plain everyday language a
gifted 10-year old could understand idea about imagery. my purpose was
to get them to think about how the idea of imagery fits into artificial
intelligence concepts but to make the assignment kind of "fun"--well, 3 of
17 students did not know what an android was, and had no idea what all
this starfleet, stardate stuff was all about, and in class noted that they
had never ever seen a science fiction film!!!!!!!
Ah, so much for creativity. And it must have given my age away???
annette
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Hatcher, Joe wrote:
> Hello Tipsters,
> I am an aging teacher. Though not old my some standards (48), I am
> beginning to feel impossibly remote from my students, who are the typical
> college age of 18-21. I don't want to get to the stage where I teach
> without connection to the people I am teaching, as I have always found that
> to be one of the joys of teaching. Rationally, however, I only expect this
> to get worse, and wonder if anyone out there has anything inspirational or
> simply helpful to offer.
> I should add that I teach in a small liberal arts environment, with
> relatively small classes.
>
> Joe Hatcher
> Ripon College
> Ripon, WI 54971
> USA
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Annette Taylor, Ph. D.
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