Tag: students today

A Vision of Students Today

This video made the rounds on the Internet (and TeachOIT) about a year and a half ago, but when we showed it at the beginning of our two most recent “Emerging Technologies” workshops I don’t believe any of the attendees had seen it, so I’ve decided it is worth sharing again here: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/dGCJ46vyR9o” width=”425″…

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Survey of Harvard Student Perceptions of Instructional Technology

[Found via the Chronicle of Higher Education’s technology blog] A survey report by a Harvard student looks at student perceptions of usefulness of a range of instructional technologies. The report is interesting in that it looks at differing perceptions between undergraduates and graduates as well as students in different fields of study. Posting course materials…

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Video about “Today’s Student”

Cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch and 200 students at Kansas State University created a video about students in today’s college classrooms. It is an example of “digital storytelling” with an interesting mix of low tech (words on paper, chalkboard and walls) and high tech (time-lapse footage of a Google Doc being edited by the 200 students).…

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