This is very tongue in cheek but I think it's on point regarding the kinds of mistakes that we all make in our reactions to the way tech has changed the higher ed landscape.
internship ppt on smartinternz platform as salesforce developer
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The Seven Deadly Sins Of Technology In Higher
1. The Seven Deadly Sins of
Technology in Higher
Education: Exposing Our
Crimes Against the Future
Sarah âIntellagirlâ Robbins
EC Moore Symposium
March 2009
2. Technology did NOT create
these problems
Technology merely brings
them to light
4. Administrators
âKent banning athlete
Web profilesâ
Administrator:quot;We're really concerned
about the safety of our student-athletes
and some of the personal information
some of them have on there.â
Columbus Dispatch
Thursday, June 22, 2006
6. Students
âHow much is it worth?â
âHow long does the paper have to
be?â
âHow much do really need to learn?â
âI donât want to accidentally learn
more than I have to.â
8. Administrators
After being asked about
student/faculty pilot studies for a
new LMS:
âWe know what they need better than
they do.â
Administrator interview
Oct. 2008
9. Faculty
âIâm not paid to know how to use
Oncourse. Iâm paid to be an
expert in my field.â
Instructor interview
Feb. 2009
10. Students
âI know Iâm not going to have
to know this for the job I want so
Why should I bother?â
student interview
Feb 2009
13. Cathy Davidson, Duke University (2008):
the media and academia distrust Wikipedia
because they have not yet figured out how to
use the Internet to their advantage.
American Journalism Review
Faculty
14. Students
âI hate working in groups. I always end up doing
the work and profs never care that other
people are being lazy.â
Student interview
Jan 2009
15. making decisions for students/faculty
rather than allowing students to
decide for themselves
16. Administrators
âOhio University officials say [theyâve
banned all P2P networking] because
P2P traffic can consume so much
bandwidth -- not because the RIAA
sent more copyright infringement
notices to Ohio than any other
American university.â
Wired
April 2007
17. Faculty
âIf theyâre not disciplined enough to not
pay attention, let âem fail. These are
college students.
(I graduated in 2005) I found that writing
notes made for better retention, due to
the fact I could draw diagrams and such.â
Wired Campus â Chronicle Forum comment
Feb 2009
18. Students
âHe [the professor] doesnât
understand how to use PowerPoint.
Why should I care what he has to say
about Wikipedia?â
Student interview
Oct 2008
20. âThe price of textbooks might be out of the
average college student's control, but
where you choose to spend your
textbook dollars is not. It goes back to
the law of supply and demand: if enough
college students find quot;creativequot; ways to
buy texts for less money, perhaps the
publishers and those who make the
buying decisions will get the message.â
Peninsula College Paper
1/31/07
Administration
21. âTodayâs senior faculty members look
at blogs the way a previous
generation of academics looked at
television â as a guilty, tawdry
pleasure that should not be talked
about in respectable circles.â
Drezner 2005
Faculty
22. âI do enough to get by. Most of my profs donât
really care one way or another.â
Student interview
Dec 2008
Students
23. assuming that the old ways, or the
ways that we were taught are
somehow superior
24. When asked about the quality of classroom
experience:
âOur faculty are world-class researchers.â
Administrator interview
Aug 2008
Administration
25. Faculty
âItâs not my job to make learning fun.
Edutainment is just another âdumbing downâ
of higher education. If they [students] want
entertainment they can go watch SpongeBob.â
Faculty interview
October 2008
26. Students
âI got really mad one time when I got a C on a
paper in class. I always got As on papers in
high school.â
Student interview
October 2008
28. Administration
âZhejiang University, Nanjing University and
Shanghai Jiaotong University launched a
rule during the new term that freshmen
are not allowed to buy computers.
University authorities asserted that this
could prevent freshmen from indulging
themselves in electronic games.â
China.org
Oct 2007
29. Faculty
quot;The concept is interesting and
well-formed, but in order to
earn better than a ''C,'' the idea
must be feasible.quot;
--A Yale University management
professor in response to Fred
Smith''s paper proposing
reliable overnight delivery
service. (Smith went on to
found Federal Express Corp.)
30. Students
âI tell my classes that if they
just do what they are
supposed to do and meet
the standard requirements,
that they will earn a C,â he
said. âThat is the default
grade. They see the default
grade as an A.â
Marshall Grossman
New York Times
Feb. 17, 2009