Changes in the Classroom September 20, 2009
Posted by afoote in : Knowledge Management , trackbackAt the beginning of the IS481, Project and Knowledge Management, course, one of the first assignments is a discussion about how the internet is changing the way that students learn in the classroom. The discussion involves examining some of the remarks that are critical of students and their use of the internet. One student, Catherine McHenry, commented on how the classroom has changed in the last ten years.
“I am at the tail end of the Net Generation, having been born in 1978. The difference between my first college experience (1996 – 2000) and this one is remarkable; the resources available to me now were unthinkable then. I did not own my own computer until 1998, when I was a junior in college, but even then projects, papers, homework, etc., involving research meant a physical trip to the library, the card catalogue, and the Dewey Decimal system for information that was potentially out of date. Now I can access that same information, as well as up-to-the-minute information, from my home. I defy anyone to say that doing it the old way was “smarter”; the information is better now, as is the access. Greater effort does not equate to greater intelligence.”
There are challenges associated with the use of the internet in the classroom, but it has a number of advantages also.
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