Quick Bits #1
Seven bits of news, including Kia putting Facebook in your car, Barnes and Noble starting up a textbook rental program, and students are 600% more depressed than they were 70 years ago.
Category: Scholarly Pursuits
More Generation Gaps in Technology Than Ever Before
“They’ll want their teachers and professors to respond to them immediately, and they will expect instantaneous access to everyone, because after all, that is the experience they have growing up.”
What’s Wrong with Second Life?
The continuing value of Second Life is obvious when we treat the technology as it should be treated – as a tool to be used when it is needed, not as a cure-all for the Internet.
University President Cancels a Study, Ed Tech Moves Backwards, and Journals Will Never Go Away
Three bits of news missed over the holidays: a university president canceled an NIH-approved study to appease a donor, technology moves backwards in early childhood education, and journals will never go away.
Online Degrees Not Worth the Paper They’re Not Printed On?
I recently came across this little video from Saturday Night Live that delivers an interesting message about online education.
Learning Styles Are Meaningless
Compelling empirical evidence for the use of learning styles in education and training simply does not exist.