Resources: Emerging technologies and the 'Net Generation'

This page covers the resources for the Alt Spring Net Generation Track; please look for the position paper, home work and the programme on Net Generation Overview.

Resources Used During This Seminar

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Suggested reading

SEUSISS: Survey of European Universities Skills in ICT of Students and Staff
http://www.intermedia.uib.no/seusiss/results.html
A project that provides a host of comparative data about the Information and Communication Technology experience, skills, confidence and attitudes of students and academic staff at seven partner universities. It provides some insight into changing student ICT skills (over time) and the skill set (and expectancies) that new generations of learners are starting to bring to their studies and to their institution.

Educating the 'Net generation': editors Diana Oblinger and James Oblinger
http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?PAGE_ID=5989&bhcp=1
A collection of writings exploring the 'Net Generation' and the implications for institutions in areas such as teaching, service, learning space design, faculty development, and curriculum.

The information-age mindsetJason Frand article on the implications for Higer Education
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm00/articles005/erm0051.pdf

Higer education for multitaskers: Richard Sweeney
http://chronicle.com/colloquy/2005/10/millennial
How different are 'Millennials', really, from the students who preceded them? Views from an American librarian.

Personal Learning Environments blog
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/ple
The PLE project team at CETIS is currently working on developing the definition, scope and a reference model for PLEs. It will also be developing desktop and portal based prototypes. The project hopes to report early in 2006.

Social Software at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_organization_of_cyberspace
Social software enables people to rendezvous, connect or collaborate through computer-mediated communication and to form online communities.

Blogs on the phenomenon of Social Software
http://technorati.com/blogs/social+software
Technorati search results.

Web 2.0 and the end of privacy?An interesting commentary from the Institute of Education blog on the effect Web2.0 technologies are having on notions of privacy.

E-learning 2.0 by Stephen Downes
http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=29-1

Learning is characterized not only by greater autonomy for the learner, but also a greater emphasis on active learning, with creation, communication and participation playing key roles, and on changing roles for the teacher, indeed, even a collapse of the distinction between teacher and student altogether.

Short summary in Dutch by Marja Verstelle: http://e-learning.surf.nl/e-learning/artikelen/3189

Web 2.0 Tools

• Wikis
• Weblogs (Blogs)
• RSS
• Podcasting
• Skype /Voip
• Social Bookmarks (http://del.icio.us/ & http://www.flickr.com/)
• Social networks (e.g. http://www.orkut.com/)
• P2P: Kazaa, Bittorrent
• Gush
• Linked in, friendster, hyves, facebook, ...
• Integrated environments (e.g.Yahoogroups)

Please feel free to add other resources.