EDUCAUSE | net gen students

Meg and Joan Lippincott Net Savvy Video

jcummings — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:45:41 -0500

Joan Lippincott, associate executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information, contributed a video interview to the ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session, Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for A Rapidly Changing World. Here's her description of it:

"My daughter, Meg Lippincott, a sophomore at Vassar College, has been working at her college library reference desk and occasionally sharing some observations with me about how students seek information for their academic work. I interviewed her for a brief video for the ELI Focus Session on net savvy students. Her friend Jan Zhan, a student at University of Maryland, did the camera work. Meg discusses some aspects of information literacy, the way she learned to use some math software, and her definition of a 'net savvy student.'" --Joan Lippincott

Podcast: Net Generation Students and Campus IT

Carie417 — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:09:48 -0500

This one-hour podcast entitled, "Net Generation Students and Campus IT: Supporting Student Success in the Age of Multitasking, Facebooking, and Instant Messaging," was recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Southeast Regional Conference. Moderated by Jeanna Mastrodicasa, co-author of Connecting to the Net.Generation: What Higher Education Professionals Need to Know about Today’s Students, this panel discussion features students Olivia White, Agnes Scott College, Joan Collier, Georgia State University, Chris Davis, Georgia Perimeter College, Irakli Gabruashvili, Georgia State University, and Anu Parvativar, Georgia Institute of Technology. They share candid advice for higher education, from the reality of file sharing and laptops in the classroom to their distaste for textbook prices and faculty Facebook friends.

Podcast: 2007 Western Regional Conference Opening Keynote by Linda Thor, President, Rio Salado College

gbayne — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:43:36 -0500

In this 44 minute podcast, we hear the opening keynote address for the 2007 Western Regional Conference entitled "All Aboard the Digital Express". This keynote is presented by Linda Thor, President of Rio Salado College in Tempe, Arizona.

Four distinct generations, from the tech-savvy to the tech-challenged, are enrolled in higher education today. Are we as educational leaders in tune with their wants and needs? In an era where students can text message their registrations, how many bells and whistles should we offer them? How do we manage to track trends? This presentation will explore possibilities and innovative solutions for the digital age.

Kate Wittenberg on How Students Are Transforming the World of Information

jcummings — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:11:10 -0600

As part of my continuing series of interviews leading up to the ELI 2007 Annual Meeting, I talked with Kate Wittenberg, Director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia University, or EPIC. She will hold a featured session at the annual meeting on Wed., Jan. 24, from 8:00-9:00 AM entitled “While You Were Out: How Students Are Transforming the World of Information and What It Means for Publishing.”

In the interview, Wittenberg provides a brief overview of the new ways in which students are developing content and using information, and what that means for the development and management of information resources within the university. She also describes EPIC and how its efforts in digital content development reflect current and emerging trends in student creation and use of online content.

Music Discovery Services in the Classroom

catherine — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:49:30 -0600

Online music discovery services and streaming web radio are generating waves in contemporary youth culture, mirrored in the blogosphere. Web-based music services such as Musicovery, Pandora, Last.fm, Soma.fm and their ilk are undoubtedly starting to change the ways that young people today discover, share and discuss the music and media they care about. But are they at all relevant in the classroom? How can web-based music services be used to educate, as well as to consume?

My suggestion: online music discovery services have the potential to become an excellent self-guided learning resource for students of music classification, period and genre. Playing around with some of the different available services, and specifically, comparing their different music classification systems, could provide students with a highly accessible introduction to the history of musical styles, performance techniques, and interactions between music and other media, such as film and television.

So, we might start by comparing the music choices on Soma FM’s “Groove Salad” station with those on Musicovery’s “Electro” category, as an accompaniment to the history of electronic and electro-acoustic music. Or a teacher might ask students to compare the concept behind Pandora’s Music Genome Project™ with Musicovery’s music description system (see Robin Good’s post for more information).

The classification systems that we use to distinguish different types of music are essentially social and cultural in nature. They tell us much about cultural mechanisms for organizing knowledge. When we are able to see how these mechanisms unfold and change over time, we learn about history. Using music discovery services in the classroom could help teachers to integrate music theory, music appreciation and the history of music in some new and interesting ways.

More roaming reporting with Vidya

mpasiewicz — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:50:00 -0500

In this recording, Vidya Ananthanarayanan leads an entertaining, informal conversation with two attendees about gaming, podcasting and their experiences at the conference at large.

Also of interest is mention of a book entitled My Freshman Year

SAC Podcast on What the Net Generation Expects From Us

mpasiewicz — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:31:00 -0500

The attached MP3 provides full coverage of the SAC conference on net generation learners.

Listen in as University of Central Florida Vice Provost Joel L. Hartman, student Gregory Roberts and a host of attendees share their thoughts and comments.See the following link for detailed information about the session "What Does the Net Generation Expect From Us?"