iblee points out that students want libraries.
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Posted June 8, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink. Tags: libraries, students, survey. Be the first one.

Inside Higher Ed asks Are College Students Techno Idiots? Slashdot summarized it this way:
Are college students techno idiots? Despite the inflammatory headline, Inside Higher Ed asks an interesting question. The article refers to a recent study by ETS, which analyzed results from 6,300 students who took its ICT Literacy Assessment. The findings show that students [...]

Posted May 14, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: information literacy, students, technoidiots, Technology, teens, web. Be the first one.

Back in August Educated Nation offered the following top ten list of web tools for college students:

Writely
Soundslides
Bluedot.Us
eFax
PDF Online
Google Calendar
Google Spreadsheets
Bloglines
Technorati
mynoteIT

Not to be outdone, an anonymous-but-first-person story at Nextstudent identifies their top ten:

Book Finder
MynoteIT
Ottobib
Google Docs
Tada List
Meebo
Wikipedia
Zoho Show
Google Reader
Del.icio.us

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Posted February 18, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: best websites, college students, higher ed, students, top ten. Be the first one.

They don’t want to engage in chat with their professors in the classroom space, they want to chat with other students in their own space.
— from Eric Gordon’s presentation this morning.
Hey, isn’t that the lesson that smart folks have been offering for a while now: “Nobody cares about you or your site. Really.” How [...]

Posted November 14, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: academia, academic discourse, chat, im, nercomp, social software, SSTL2006, students. One Comment.

As part of a larger message to faculty returning from winter break, our CIO offered this summary of how he sees advancing internet use affecting higher education:
Are you familiar with blogs and podcasts? Google them, or look them up in Wikipedia. Some of you may already be using these new tools. Others may think these [...]

Posted January 24, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: faculty, higher education, internet, internet and education, internet and higher education, internet use, learning, libaries, library, millennial students, millennials, netgen, netgens, students. 3 Comments.