School Communications 2.0 » University of Washington http://nylady.edublogs.org Advice for School Leaders and Communicators in a Web 2.0 World Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:01:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Textbooks and iPods and Facebook — Oh My! http://nylady.edublogs.org/2008/08/28/textbooks-and-ipods-and-facebook-oh-my/ http://nylady.edublogs.org/2008/08/28/textbooks-and-ipods-and-facebook-oh-my/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:42:57 +0000 nylady http://nylady.edublogs.org/2008/08/28/textbooks-and-ipods-and-facebook-oh-my/ This Special Report in Businessweek this week takes a fascinating look at how technology — from iPods to professors’ Facebook pages — is changing the face of your average campus.

I especially like this quote from a researcher in the story:

Cara Lane, a researcher who studies learning and scholarly technologies at the University of Washington in Seattle, says all that time spent searching for Hannah Montana videos on YouTube can help make teens better at searching the databases, including Lexis-Nexis and J-Stor, they’ll need for academic research—those IMs, texts, and status updates are a primer for participation in online forums related to classwork. “Students usually arrive not knowing how to use education-oriented technology tools,” Lane says. “But they quickly surpass their instructors in their ability to use them effectively.”

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