Technology Changes - Cringley speaks on PBS

From my colleague, Roger Whitney, in CS 10 April 2008 in response to my note to CS and Math/Stat faculty after seeing the youtube video that I shared with the IIT committee last spring.

Kris,
        You might find the following posts about education and technology  
from a technologist interesting:

They are in order, although one could read them in any order. In the first article he claims that the hordes of home schooled and their parents are not going to tolerate our medieval based University system of education. In the second he points out that the Amish for a miniscule fraction of what we spend on high school education seem to be much better at preparing student for the world. In the last one he argues that digital games should be the future of education.

On Apr 7, 2008, at 5:46 PM, stewart@sciences.sdsu.edu wrote:

> hello comupting faculty in math/stat and CS,
>
> i attend a presentation from our sdsu library invited speak the week
> before break.
>
> as we consider how will will handle the large lecture halls, and the
> increasing technolgoy, i thought this might present food for hall way
> discussions.
>
>  youtube Large Lecture

a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today 
- how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their 
lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. 
Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.

Source of video:
Subject: a vision of students today
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 14:23:02 -0400
From: "Calhoun,Karen" 
>
> not trying to attack or point finger - but i find this useful to  
> think about.
>
> hope you had a great break and are smoothly pursuing the final 5  
> weeks of
> spring 2008 semester.