Students & Technology: Articles

This week, we offer a few recent articles pertaining to college students learning with, about, or even in spite of technology:

“Learning in Real Life: Mobile Learning and Non-Traditional Students” by Albert Powell, Director of Learning Technologies at Colorado State University OnlinePlus (5/30/14)
From The Evolllution: Illuminating the Lifelong Learning Movement:  
http://www.evolllution.com/opinions/learning-real-life-mobile-learning-non-traditional-students/

“Facebook in the Back of the Classroom” by Joshua Kim (4/22/14)
From Inside Higher Ed’s “Technology and Learning” blog:
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/facebook-back-classroom

“Confronting the Myth of the ‘Digital Native’” by Megan O’Neil (4/21/14)

From The Chronicle:
http://chronicle.com/article/Confronting-the-Myth-of-the/145949/

“Social Media Scholarship” by Carl Straumsheim (4/7/14)
From Inside Higher Ed:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/04/07/social-media-may-benefit-international-students-and-group-projects-researchers-argue

What We Learned at FUSION, Part II

This week continues our discussion of lessons learned at FUSION.

Lisa Marie Johnson, Cultural Science Instructor, contributes:

“I attended many useful sessions at Fusion 2011, but the one that gave me the most pause for thought was 'The Future of Mobile: Insight and Vision from Desire2Learn' presented by David Kruis.

David discussed how the first internet experience for most developing nations' citizens is mobile technology. He examined the difficulty for educators in design and delivery of mobile due to the different definitions of ‘smartphone’ in the USA and abroad. Some phones are merely web enabled while others do truly mimic a personal computing experience.

Following that discussion, David explored a framework for understanding what mobile computing and learning means. . .”

Lisa Marie continues a summary of the framework in the CCCOnline Community. As always, please feel free to join in the conversation!