Net Gen Students and the Future of Learning

I just returned from a trip to Atlanta to attend the Southeastern Regional Educause Conference. Among the most fascinating topics explored was the workshop on "Building a Blueprint: Net Gen Students, Web 2.0, and the future of Learning" conducted by Carie Page, ELI Program Administrator.

Here are some of the fascinating topics with related links that were discussed:

1) Living and Learning with New Media

2) Students and Information Technology (Educause Center for Applied Research):

• more than 85% of undergraduates are logging onto social networking sites like Facebook.
• More than 83% are text messaging from their phones.
• more than 2/3 are downloading music and videos from the web with 77.3% creating and sharing web content
• Almost half are contributing to sites like Flickr and YouTube
• Approximately 38% are contributing to blogs and wikis
• Almost 1/3 are acessing web content from handheld devices like mobile phones with internet connectivity

3) Still hadn't caught the Twitter bug yet. Any suggestions on ways to incorporate it into higher education classroom?

4) Top 100 Tools for Learning, 2009

5) 7 THings you Should Know About

Jeremy Tuck, An Athens State Success Story

Just recently I ran into a former student, Jeremy Tuck, a graduate of Athens State's computer science program. It warms my heart to see how successful, both personally and professionally, students like Jeremy have become.

First, he was awarded the Outstanding CIS Student award from his Masters Degree program at Florida Institute of Technology. I feel proud that Jeremy has continued to meet with academic and professional success. See article to the left.

In addition, he volunteers his time to help students at Morris Elementary School with reading and other skills. Read about the program here: http://www.whoswhoinhuntsvilletechnology.com/wwhsvtechmag_issue9/wwhsvtechmag_stories_issue9.htm#Lockheed

Way to go, Jeremy! You are an inspiration to us all.