A decade ago, graduate teaching involved more of a self-motivated drive towards knowledge acquiring. Today students are presented with a plethora of data beyond what is taught in the classrooms. Does this influence the way students view contemporary teaching methods?
I am a secondary school teacher. I definitely see a change. It has made me change my teaching. Students are very ready to download anything to respond to questions so I have changed to teaching them how to use downloaded material more effectively & honestly. Their interest now is to find something on the web that meets their needs. They have become Very adept at decoding text for superficial meaning but don't try to understand it in depth. So 'Yes' and it means we have to teach them differently.
Most likely, there has been a shift in student view, due in part to the flow of modernization. Previously (a decade or longer ago), it seems that younger students had a greater need to be engaged than older ones because of factors like short attention span of young children and "more of a self-motivated drive towards knowledge acquiring" in older students. But thanks to other factors like the increasing pace of "life," the ubiquity of mobile technology, the level of social connectedness, etc., it would seem that older students now have a greater need to be engaged (or entertained) than did their counterparts of the past. This may partly contribute to a shift towards students relying on external sources of engagement and motivation.
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