For step seven of the 21 Lunges exercise I have chosen the article The Information Age Mindset: changes in students and implications for Higher Education/ Jason L. Frand. This article looks at the students in higher education and the way they use technology to learn and observes changing learning styles created by new technologies.
The article begins looking at the rapid change in how students view technology; students are growing up in a globally connected information rich and digitally enhanced culture. The introduction of new technologies such as the Internet, mobile phones, palm pilots and so on means that students are accessing and using information differently to how they used information several decades ago. Information is quicker to retrieve and the student must be have the ability to navigate the information they retrieve and draw their own conclusions from the data.
The article says of this generation that‘Living in a connected world means individuals can interact in real time dialogues from anywhere anytime’. This means students have come to expect quick results and Universities are adding more services on-line and labs and libraries are staying open later as students experience working at more flexible hours. This is in part due to on-line services being available 24 hours a day in other areas of the community. The article finishes saying that Universities have to keep up with their customers wants and needs and must incorporate the changing world of the information age.
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3 years ago
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Do you agree with that? I do. But RMIT is so backward that it is having trouble keeping up with the youngins. QUT in Brisbane is way ahead in that area. But maybe they have less students and more space...
Yes I do agree with the article. I often wonder with the younger generation communicating so frequently through internet and mobile phone texting will they lack verbal communication skills in the future.
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