John Hibbs's message below seems to challenge the conventional wisdom which holds that the young are ready for the "digital revolution" while their elders resist it.
It's not that the college students I know well resist "technology". Universally, they have cell phones and text message like crazy. They get instantly touchdown-by-touchdown updates and have no trouble at all finding out, remotely, where the party is tonight. They can take digital photographs and wirelessly email same. But give them something to read outside of their required reading assignment that is unrelated to sports or fashion, and what you see is pretty close to armed resistance.
They are cold - no, not cold - FRIGID! - to blogging, underscored by antagonism - yes that is the correct word - to writing assignments for old school professors who believe some aspect of their grade is determined by grammar, spelling, punctuation, paragraphing.
You want them to write something on a *voluntary* basis? Gawd, Hibbs. ya gotta be CRAZY!
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Having said all this, I suspect this conversation (Steve) is best held on lists devoted to "education"? (Like DEOS?)
Cheers,
John
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