Napp Nazworth had an interesting post on his blog about the value of a college degree. In his post, he referenced an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education from Marty Nemko. In the article, Nemko describes many students who believe that they should be getting a college degree only to end up [...]
Forgive me if I’m behind the times, but I don’t always get to things that I see in Educause right away. I just read an article by Joan Lipnicott called “Student Content Creators: Convergence of Literacies” (PDF) that argues that information & technology literacy skills can be combined through a more rigorous or proscribed [...]
As a humanities major myself, the question that I inevitably got asked was, “What are you going to do with your history degree?” People didn’t see the usefulness of studying something like history. It doesn’t translate neatly like a business, economics, or finance degree does into the corporate world. That’s not a knock on those [...]
This is another video by Michael Wesch at Kansas State. He’s the guy whose videos I posted yesterday. Here’s how Wesch describes it on YouTube:
“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 [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I was watching the evening news and saw a piece that I liked a lot. It’s about Randy Pausch, a 46 year old computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon. While that may not seem like much to go on, I suggest you click on this link to watch [...]
