{"id":17,"date":"2004-08-17T09:44:16","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T13:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=17"},"modified":"2004-08-17T09:44:16","modified_gmt":"2004-08-17T13:44:16","slug":"as-the-coffee-cools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/as-the-coffee-cools\/","title":{"rendered":"As the coffee cools …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another school year looms, I mean beckons<\/em>, and I regard it with my usual mingled dread, fascination, awe, and excitement. (That list is in no particular order.) I look forward to being pushed harder by native-born citizens of cyberspace, by which I mean incoming students. These folks were around eight years of age when the World Wide Web appeared, so they’ve spent some of their childhood and all of their adolescence in an increasingly robust and ubiquitous online environment. That heritage represents a huge challenge for higher education. I don’t think we should adopt all the aspects of the culture students live in–there’s a strong countercultural obligation in higher education, I believe–but at the same time, college shouldn’t be the place where information technologies don’t really matter. We need to create a robust network of our own that connects the work of teaching and learning to the world beyond the classroom. Or to put it another way, we should encourage students to view the world as a learning space that asks for reflection, persuasive argument, and committed interaction. I think information technologies have a crucial role to play in that encouragement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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