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Written by Graham Attwell
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Monday, 08 May 2006 |
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Call for papers to be published in a special issue of Innovate on the implications of the Net (echo boomer) generation for teaching and learning.
Terry Calhoun, of the Society for College and University Planning, and Chris Davis of Baker College are the guest editors for this issue. Please follow the submission guidelines at http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=submit and send your manuscript to the guest editors (
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) by July 30, 2006.
In a recent blog, one Internet maven described how his 15-year-old son made a live VOIP telephone call from his digital camera. No, the camera was not designed for that but, yes, he was able to make it work. He is not alone. We have a tsunami of very different people headed for our campuses. You might view the situation as the ocean having just retreatedfrom the shore, with the mass of the real wave just about to appear.
The new generation in secondary schools and arriving on college campuses has been referred to with a variety of names: Millenials, Echo Boomers, andthe Net Generation. The latter is the term used by Diana and Jim Oblingerin their recent EDUCAUSE book, Educating the Net Generation. The expectations, attitudes, and fluency with technology of this new generation presents both a challenge and an opportunity for education. How ca neducational institutions plan now for these challenges? What will be effective teaching and learning strategies for this generation? How arestudents using technology? What are the expectations of this generation? How might they transform higher education during their matriculation? Theseare some of the questions well worth trying to answer in a special issue of Innovate.
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