Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/opinion/david-brooks-the-big-university.html
for the past many decades colleges narrowed down to focus on professional academic disciplines, but now there are a series of forces leading them to widen out so that they leave a mark on the full human being.
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http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/01/09/social-media-update-2014/
http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/popular-social-networks-age/502497
http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social-networking-websites
more in this blog on social media usage:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2014/10/13/social-media-statistics-australia/
http://www.edutopia.org/article/bullying-prevention-resources
visit the web site: http://www.edutopia.org/article/bullying-prevention-resources for more…
More about cyberbullying in this blog at
Faculty at the meetings noted that students’ emotional fragility has become a serious problem when in comes to grading. Some said they had grown afraid to give low grades for poor performance, because of the subsequent emotional crises they would have to deal with in their offices.
the Chronicle of Higher Education recently ran an article by Robin Wilson entitled, “An Epidemic of Anguish: Overwhelmed by Demand for Mental-Health Care, Colleges Face Conflicts in Choosing How to Respond” (Aug. 31, 2015).
http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/09/tinder-objects-to-mention-alongside-chlamydia.html
see our discussion with sociology students regarding social media apps for online dating at:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/08/18/sociology-and-social-media/
Bored students is the least of it – the bullet point-ization of information is making us stupid and irresponsible
The genesis story runs like this: from the late 1950s corporations began to realise that, rather than going to the trouble of developing new products they hoped would meet a need, they could use marketeers to create the perception of need, then develop products to meet it (a shift brilliantly dramatised in the TV series Mad Men). To do this, different departments had to be able to speak to each other, to sell ideas internally. So while there had always been meetings, now there were meetings about meetings and – hey presto! – the modern world was born.
The presentational precursor to PowerPoint was the overhead projector, which is why PP screens are still called “slides”. The program owes most to Whitfield Diffie, one of the time lords of online cryptography, but it was quickly snapped up by Microsoft. Its coding/marketing roots are intrinsic to its cognitive style, being relentlessly linear and encouraging short, affirmative, jargonesque assertions: arguments that are resolved, untroubled by shades of grey.
It’s no coincidence that the two most famous PowerPoint presentations are: a) the one presented to Nasa managers by engineers, explaining with unarguable illogic why damaged tiles on the space shuttle Columbia were probably nothing to fret about; and b) General Colin Powell’s equally fuzzy pitch for war with Iraq. Now, blaming PowerPoint for Iraq would be a bit like blaming Darwin for Donald Trump, but the program made scrutiny of the case harder. Not for nothing did Brigadier General McMaster, of the US military, subsequently liken the proliferation of PP presentation in the military to an “internal threat”, saying: “It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control. Some problems are not bullet-izable.”
More on the topic in this blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2013/11/11/death-by-powerpoint/
maximise PowerPoint’s true potential.
Course content
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Unwritten-Rules-of/233245/
a grass-roots assessment project of 25,000 students at 27 institutions in seven countries. Results showed that a simple approach can yield big results. Making the process of teaching and learning explicit to students — especially those who don’t know what to expect
Professors who have signed on to the project consider three questions when creating assignments: what, exactly, they’re asking students to do (the “task”); why students have to do it (the “purpose”); and how the work will be evaluated (the “criteria”).
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/social-media-tactics-drive-traffic-your-ecommerce-digital-marketing
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sms-disrupter-social-media-michael-spencer
Email and Social media as we know it will die out. I’m not saying this year or in 5 years, but they will. I honestly think you are going to see Tablets in office spaces more and hybrid mobile devices take over at work.
The Interface of SMS is well, shiny and nice and not so annoying like a binary like Facebook feed, plain Jane like Twitter feed or hyper pseudo-useful like a LinkedIn one. Visual social channels like Pinterest and Instagram have more to offer, a better interface, UX and actual social utility.
By 2016, it’s estimate apps like these below have been used to send 2x as many messages as traditional text messaging form person to person.
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