Thursday, November 5, 2009

Hey, you in the Ivory Tower: the Technology Gap is Real!

Do you really still think Prensky has been debunked?

Think again:

Use by Students and Faculty Members of Various Technologies in Conjunction With Education

Tool
Students
Faculty Members
Laptops
84%
69%
Course management systems
77%
60%
Social networking
52%
14%
Open source applications
31%
12%
iPod / MP3 player
31%
8%
Wikis
28%
11%

3 comments:

trena paulus said...

Isn't this just reflecting your typical generation gap?

Unknown said...

I tend to think so (mixed in with the context of academia, which is even more "old-guard" than "old-guard"), although you'd be surprised at the number of people who think Prensky is dead wrong.

Zaciroth said...

Funny also is the percentile of GTAs and faculty who barely know their way around a basic OS.