Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com
This week CNET News ran an excellent series looking at the future of the web (hint: it's social!).
As I've discussed before, the influx of digital technologies have impacted the way students learn and have made instructor led teaching methods less effective and relevant.
One of the reports focused on how the "net generation" uses the web. Consider this quote from a college student featured in the article:
"If I'm not texting my friends over the cell phone, I have my laptop with me and I'm IM'ing them. Or I'm doing research on Google. Honestly, the only reason any one of my college friends use the library is for group meetings."All of us involved in education--online or in the traditional classroom--need to pay attention to these emerging sociological trends and begin designing learning environments and activities that appeal to the digital reality of millennial students.
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