{"id":1019,"date":"2007-10-16T23:22:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T13:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2007-10-16T23:22:42","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T13:22:42","slug":"students-today-dare-i-compare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"Students today – dare I compare?"},"content":{"rendered":"

New media analyst Alja Sulcic<\/a> pointed to a video on her Facebook produced by a group of cultural anthropology students, surveying their own tribal group. And the results are fascinating – and look set to challenge many of the pedagogical assumptions we have. The biggest challenge is whether today’s university is relevant – and what place might they hold in the future?<\/p>\n

Students today – when they graduate they will probably have a job… that doesn’t exist today.<\/p>\n

Average class size = 115
\n18 percent of teachers know a student’s name<\/p>\n

Students
\nRead 8 books a year, 2300 web pages, 1289 Facebook profiles<\/p>\n

Write 42 pages for class per semester, over 500 pages of emails<\/p>\n

Hours in the day
\n7.0 sleeping
\n1.5 watching TV
\n3.5 online
\n2.5 listening to music
\n2.0 on mobile phone
\n3.0 in class
\n2.0 eating
\n2.0 working
\n3.0 studying
\nTOTAL = 26.5 hours<\/p>\n

They multi-task. They have to.<\/p>\n

Many students are so engaged by their classes that they Facebook right through them or do other stuff on their laptop or text their friends. Many don’t read their $100 textbooks.<\/p>\n

Much of what they get at university is irrelevant to them or out of date before the textbook is published – at least that is their perception.<\/p>\n

So in my middle aged mid-career life, how do I compare?
\nI sleep 7.0 hours a night
\nI have a job that didn’t exist three years ago.
\nI recently sold some writing to an online journal that is in a virtual world that didn’t exist three years ago (okay the world did, but only just – the journal is less than one year old)
\nI work 8-9 hours a day – I don’t do personal stuff at work
\nI watch less than 1.0 hour of TV per day
\nI spend about 2-3 hours a day online
\nI play fiddle about 1.0 hour a day
\nI do email\/check online news and weather over breakfast
\nI listen to 20 minutes of music per day – driving to\/from work
\nI multi-task – often playing tunes while waiting for pages to load<\/p>\n

So I guess the age group is irrelevant – the fact is that life today is very different from what it was even just ten years ago when I started writing my book about the internet. I wrote my first email in June 1989. I guess that makes me a relatively early adopter. I first surfed the internet using Mosaic and Gopher. I built my first website in 1996 – entirely hand-coded. <\/p>\n

Here is the video that started this post<\/p>\n

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How do you compare?<\/p>\n

Cheers
\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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