Creating a Digital Campus: 12

As the world becomes more digital, so will our campus. Students walk across campus, listening to their digital media player while texting their friends on their cellphone. More and more students are using laptops instead of desktops, and they are starting to bring those laptops to class instead of a spiral notebook. 

Learning to communicate with the Digital Natives

They are known by many different names; Digital Natives, Gen Y, The Millennials.... We like to call them our students. They have grown up with computers, cell phones, iPods. To them, these items are not technology, they are a commodity. How can we use that to our advantage? Homework assignments delivered via instant message or SMS? Lectures online and on iPods? Compositions created in video instead of on paper? DVD Documentaries instead of research papers?

The Coulter Faculty Center and the Division of IT want to help start that conversation by sponsoring the Digital Campus Academy, a two day, hands on workshop designed to provide our faculty with practical knowledge and immediately useable skills for 21st century teaching and learning.
We are also providing this site as a forum for faculty to discuss using these technologies in their courses. If you are interested in participating in this conversation about How to Create a Digital Campus, please email Neil Torda to be added to the Digital Campus group so you can add your own thoughts, ideas and suggestions.