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Why Teach Tech in Political Science?
My students can vouch for the fact that I’m a technophile. Over the last few years, I’ve asked students at various times to submit work via the Digital Dropbox in Blackboard, submit work via email...
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Technology Policies on Course Syllabi
It’s final exam time for most of us in higher education. We are scrambling to give final exams, grade student work, submit grades, and leave for the winter break with just a little bit of sanity and a...
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Digital Natives? Naive!
Via the New York Times “Idea of the Day” blog we discover this pointer to a recent article in The Economist highlighting skeptics of the whole “Digital Native” idea, in short the idea that the...
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Encouraging Students’ Digital Problem-Solving Skills
In my post last week, just in passing, I noted that I like to know how things work. What can I say? I’m an amateur techie. That said, I think there’s genuine pedagogical value in teaching students...
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Developing a Digital Etiquette Policy
This week, after reading Lee Skallerup’s excellent post “In Class Distractions Are Nothing New” at College Ready Writing, I sent Lee a message on Twitter that sparked a long and productive conversation...
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Easy First Tasks for Students
Last week–the first full week of class this semester–my first-year writing students had an assignment that required them to create a document in a word processor and then email me that document as an...
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How to Measure (and Improve) Students’ Digital Skills?
Early last year I wrote a post about the ways in which an uncritical adoption of the “digital native” concept does our students a disservice. “[F]eeding our students the myth of ‘digital natives’,” I...
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Teaching Students to Search with ‘Google Search Education Evangelism’
On Wednesday I asked an open thread discussion question–How do we measure (and improve) students’ digital skills?–that resulted in a pretty good conversation about various approaches different people...
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Update: ‘Google Search Education’
Google’s search engine is a powerful and impressive tool for locating information online. Unfortunately for many students, the simplicity of the default search interface can lead to some pretty poor...
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