Should I feel bad that I' almost giddy about our last child going off to college? I can't help it after raising 6 kids I deserve a break. But as I was packing up this last child there was defenitely an interesting change in what he was packing with him. With Mac Book in hand, and a box full of movie DVD's I was curious as to what technologies college students were using the most these days. Besides the obvious cell phone, my older son who is a senior this year decided to buy a net-book instead of replacing his lap top which bit the dust a few months ago. He didn't see the need for spending the extra $200 for a full laptop and with the use of Cloud computing for accessing programs and storage it made sense. Plus the battery life is so much longer on these net-books I"m tempted to get one for myself with the communting that we do in the city it would be much easier to carry this around vs. my bigger laptop.
The other big difference I noted was that books are now finally getting into the digital game. I always thought the college book market was way out of hand -- even though I understand there is a defenite cost to putting these wonderful resources together but the truth of the matter is digital books make more sense for college students.
Also the registration and monitoring of your student records, payments etc continues to become more accessible via digital technologies.
Now let's take it one step further and get it into the classroom or outside the classroom. Here is a video of how Vassar College is using Tablet PC's in the field
Technology in the Field: Vassar College and Tablet PCs from Meg Stewart on Vimeo.
Here is another resource that speaks to the Digital Technology impact on Education from the Univ of IL (home of Netscape, SpyGlass and other cool ground breaking technologies)
http://www2.ed.gov/Technology/Futures/hardin.html
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
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