FALL 2008: WEEK 1: College Students Today Video

[Brandy]

If you haven't watched this video already, watch it at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o (or on the main page or our
site at http://www.icc.edu/innovation/iccfa/)
Thanks to Todd Jorns, Senior Director Instructional Technology
Illinois Community College Board for sharing this video with me.

Now reply to this topic with your comments on the video? Did you
notice the # of hrs students spend online, viewing facebook profiles ?

[eker...@oakton.edu]

Extremely powerful video! I need to get busy and develop more
technology driven content in my courses.
Elizabeth (Bess) Kershisnik

On Oct 13, 1:53 pm, Brandy <bthatc...@icc.edu> wrote:
> If you haven't watched this video already, watch it at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o(or on the main page or our
> site athttp://www.icc.edu/innovation/iccfa/)

[tnic...@prairiestate.edu]

I've seen this video before, and I think it's particularly poignant
and tells us a lot about how our students communicate. This semester,
I gave out my cell number as a way for students to get a hold of me
when they need to talk to me before class the next day (this largely
in response to a cruddy voice mail system at the school), and not only
did my students choose to solely contact me via my cell (something I
should have anticipated), but they have contacted me almost solely by
text message too. The fact that they spend two hours a day on their
cell phones and more time facebooking doesn't surprise me a bit. As a
young faculty member I get that--I've replaced email with facebook for
almost all of my friends, and we rarely send actual email anymore.
I'm also consistently multitasking--I'm facebooking right now--so I
recognize my students' divided attention. There's a great article
called "Death of Email" on Slate.com: http://www.slate.com/id/2177969/pagenum/all/
... that probably tells us as much about our students' flexibility in
communication--and willingness to constantly multitask--as the video
does.

My issue is how to use this information. A colleague of mine holds
office hours via chat in facebook... I don't know that going to
students in whatever medium they're interested in communicating in is
inherently the way to go here, but it's a thought that deserves some
consideration. The flip side, of course, is that all of this
technology makes it easier and easier for our students to divide their
attentions and harder and harder for them to focus in detail on a
single project for a long stretch. So do we join in or hold out,
hoping to bring our students to us? If I could solve this problem, I
think I'd spend a lot more time working on improving other things,
like my classroom teaching, rather than wondering whether anything I
do in the classroom reaches my students and seems useful to them.

On Oct 13, 1:53 pm, Brandy <bthatc...@icc.edu> wrote:

> If you haven't watched this video already, watch it at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o(or on the main page or our
> site athttp://www.icc.edu/innovation/iccfa/)

[kmayesdenker]

Excellent Video! The statistics are very compelling as to why we need
to incorporate new technology.

> > If you haven't watched this video already, watch it at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o(oron the main page or our