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Entries from Teaching with Technology @ Tufts tagged with 'Net Generation'
Friday's Pick: A Vision of Students Today
Much is being written about the characteristics of the Net Generation learner in higher education but if you have a moment (about 4 minutes actually), check out the video on YouTube - A Vision of Students Today.. Or better yet,...
What the Net Generation Doesn't Know
One of the EDUCAUSE's Learning Initiative (ELI) focus areas is the Net Generation learner http://www.educause.edu/NewLearners/5515 described as "Traditional-age students who are now entering colleges and universities may never have known life without the Internet... In many cases, the perspective of the Net Generation varies significantly from that of today's college and university administrators and faculty."
Friday's Pick: Report on student information-seeking habits
The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC ) http://www.oclc.org/default.htm has recently published the report College Students’ Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources. This is an excellent look at how today's Net Generation does research. I had first discovered this source of data on college students' perceptions of libraries and information resources in the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative October 2006 white paper, How Choice, Co-Creation, and Culture Are Changing What It Means to Be Net Savvy http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI3008.pdf
Treemo, Twango, MMORPGs and Mashups
If you are unfamiliar with the three words in the title for this entry, you are not alone... I have spent the summer learning new words and a new vocabulary to keep up with the new Digital Natives, Net Generation Learners or New Millennial Students (take your pick) coming to our campuses. Born after 1980 and having grown up using the Internet and computers, these students are arriving on campus using cellphones more than laptops, instant messaging each other instead of emailing and listening to podcasts of classroom lectures on their iPods.
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