Do you remember carbon paper? Beloit Mindset List - including 2016!

We have all been at one time or another part of a culture gap. This often manifests itself in one person being cheerfully oblivious to cultural phenomenon essential to someone else. My favorite example from some years ago was "Do you mean Paul McCartney had a band before Wings?" And if you don't understand any of those references, well, there you have it writ large.

I recently came across two neat examples of ways to mark some of these differences in fun ways.

The first comes from The New York Times and asks "Do You Remember Carbon Paper?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/opinion/sunday/answers-to-the-carbon-paper-exam.html

The second is the Beloit College Mindset List about characteristics of incoming freshman and served as a reminder to teachinbg faculty to stay away from dated references (like Paul McCartney, Wings and The Beatles!).
http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2015/

Big News: The newest Beloit Mindset List is now available at:
http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2016

Think of these as you interact with students, yes, but also younger (or older) employees, co-workers, colleagues, etc. Then, think about things in your profession that people just starting out might have no idea about and see if you can come up with your list. Sounds like fun to me, yeah! yeah! yeah!