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Friday, September 28, 2007
Digital education a virtual reality for Gen Net kids - Connie Llanos, Inside Bay Area
Raising your hand to answer a question in class is so 20th century. Today's college students can simply tap away on classroom clickers to beam lecture questions and test answers directly into their professors' laptops. Notebooks, pencils and heavy textbooks have been replaced by computers, cell phones and other electronic gadgets that can send and store digital information. And scholars can even conduct physics experiments or sit through complicated engineering formulas — in their pajamas. "There's an academic transformation going on right now," said Steven Fitzgerald, an associate computer science professor at California State University, Northridge.
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