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Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Professors say that anti-technology teachers are bad for tech-savvy students - Macleans.ca
This weekend students across the country are making the move to their new dorm rooms and basements suites in anticipation of the first day of class. And considering the wide array of high-tech information devices—from the internet to cell phones—some researchers are asking if it necessary for students to migrate to physical classrooms at all. This generation of students, who are accustomed to leading digital lives, may be suffering in classrooms ruled by traditional professors. Researchers say defenders of lecture-based orthodoxy, wielding overhead projectors and reciting from dog-eared history textbooks that climax with Paul Martin's run for 24 Sussex Drive, could be a bad match for students weaned on collaborative learning and high-tech devices. "It's not about using technology for technology's sake. It's allowing students to access the right information because of the information explosion," says Mohamed Ally, director of the Centre for Computing and Information Systems at Athabasca University, Alberta's distance-learning pioneer.
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