The Net Generation has grown up with information technology. The aptitudes, attitudes, expectations, and learning styles of Net Gen students reflect the environment in which they were raised—one that is decidedly different from that which existed when faculty and administrators were growing up.
http://www.educause.edu/educatingthenetgen
Student Privacy Issues, Ethics, and Solving the Guest Lecturer Dilemma in Online Courses
By Virgil E. Varvel Jr., CAI Specialist and Instructor
University of Illinois Department of Outreach and Public Service
In an era where our privacy seems to be slowly dwindling—when our email can be viewed by our employers and cameras sit perched on street corners—some strongholds of privacy do remain. And, perhaps surprisingly, one such stronghold carries over to the online realm. While your face may be on camera and your words in print, your identity remains protected and privileged information. Of interest then is the special situation when an individual enrolls in an online course. For some, it is the very nature of online anonymity that prompts an educational move to online courses.
http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=28-1
Technology-Enabled Teaching/eLearning Dialogue
ePortfolios Help Clayton State University Assess Student Learning and Program
By Martha Wicker,
Director of the Center for Instructional Development,
Clayton State University
Clayton State University's core mission is to provide superior career-oriented studies that will prepare its students to succeed in the world of work in the 21st century. A member of the Georgia University system with an enrollment of approximately 5,700, Clayton (www.clayton.edu) required its students to bring a laptop to campus as early as 1998. Now Clayton is introducing ePortfolios to campus, adding additional value to the students' use of their computers and providing a mechanism to document the outcomes of their education. Currently, we are using the portfolios in our department of Dental Hygiene and In the Department of Teacher Education."
http://www.campus-technology.com/news_article.asp?id=11801&typeid=156
Duke has released its results from an iPod pilot at the universtiy.
http://cit.duke.edu/pdf/ipod_initiative_04_05.pdf
Copyright 101
Submitted by Richard Lanham
Note: This essay began life as a talk delivered at several American campuses during my 2001-02 year as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. I have revised and expanded it for publication here.
I ought to warn you up front that this essay is a one-trick pony: I make only one point. It is not hard to understand but has not been widely understood.
The One Trick
The transfer of information from the printed page to the digital screen has changed the meaning of ownership and authorship in perplexing ways. Our students face these perplexities every day of their learning and working lives—and not only if they use Napster or its epigones to download pop songs. I suggest that we should prepare them, in some formal way, for the intellectual property questions which are now an ordinary part of their lives. A course in copyright—we can call it “Copyright 101” —would be a good place to begin. I offer some suggestions about how such a course might develop."
http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/lanham-copyright-101
This just released from the Pew Internet and American Life Project;
"Teens and Technology: Youth are Leading the Transition to a Fully Wired and Mobile Nation
Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden, Paul Hitlin
Today’s American teens live in a world enveloped by communications technologies; the internet and cell phones have become a central force that fuels the rhythm of daily life.
The number of teenagers using the internet has grown 24% in the past four years and 87% of those between the ages of 12 and 17 are online. Compared to four years ago, teens’ use of the internet has intensified and broadened as they log on more often and do more things when they are online. "
Full report available at
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/162/report_display.asp