It’s Not About Technology, Stupid
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 […] » about 300 words
Top Ten Times Two For Students
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:
Social Learning On The Cluetrain?
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 could learning environments not be subject to the same cluetrain forces affecting the rest of the world?
Students love IM. They love Google. They love FaceBook. What does your courseware matter to them?
CIO’s Message To Faculty: The Internet Is Here
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 […] » about 400 words