Re: Teacher and Students of UH sit down!
It's all about immediate gratification. The generation that occupies the 20-year olds now want it immediately. To graduate and get that high paying job without earning it. They believe that four years of college was struggle and now they deserve better...hmmm college couldn't be easier now than ever with the internet to aid in research and online registration (as opposed to Klum Gym and sweating on your registration forms).
This generation is all about "ME" and very little to do with micro tasks in the big picture, like that Volkswagen commercial of that young couple pounding the floor with their bizzare dancing. Instead of just turning the music down, VW suggests that they buy their car, bigger sound system and a new home. Ummm I think that commercial missed the point that we must all act together for a common goal.
And when it comes to campus culture, the Ipod rules. Isolate your world in earbuds and listen to the music you like. Where's the connection to the rest of the world? You become engrossed in the message you choose to listen to with your personalized playlist and it slowly brainwashes you to individualized thinking instead of global thought.
And Hence, this generation lacks the ability to rally a group as one because everyone's dancing to their own drum (Ipod) instead of a common theme. It's all about "me" or "I" as in I in my personal pod...Ipod...
It's all about immediate gratification. The generation that occupies the 20-year olds now want it immediately. To graduate and get that high paying job without earning it. They believe that four years of college was struggle and now they deserve better...hmmm college couldn't be easier now than ever with the internet to aid in research and online registration (as opposed to Klum Gym and sweating on your registration forms).
This generation is all about "ME" and very little to do with micro tasks in the big picture, like that Volkswagen commercial of that young couple pounding the floor with their bizzare dancing. Instead of just turning the music down, VW suggests that they buy their car, bigger sound system and a new home. Ummm I think that commercial missed the point that we must all act together for a common goal.
And when it comes to campus culture, the Ipod rules. Isolate your world in earbuds and listen to the music you like. Where's the connection to the rest of the world? You become engrossed in the message you choose to listen to with your personalized playlist and it slowly brainwashes you to individualized thinking instead of global thought.
And Hence, this generation lacks the ability to rally a group as one because everyone's dancing to their own drum (Ipod) instead of a common theme. It's all about "me" or "I" as in I in my personal pod...Ipod...
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