Campus Technology: Rethinking Technological Literacy

Strategic Discussions on Technology

5/11/2011

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Rethinking Technological Literacy
As more and more digital technology finds its way into academic, business, and social domains on higher education campuses, and as the world into which students are received when they graduate demands greater technological competency, the pleas for "digital literacy" heard at colleges and universities make sense. Sherry Turkle also argues that institutions should foster a deeper understanding of how new digital tools affect students’ work and lives, though she proposes a somewhat different focus--she suggests "rethinking technological literacy."
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Worth Noting

Blackboard Enlists User Help To Develop Next-Gen Collaborate
Blackboard's collaboration division will be promoting a mild form of crowdsourcing to develop the next generation of its technology.
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IBM Grants Fund Smarter Planet Curriculum Development
Fifty faculty members from 40 institutions in 14 countries have each received $10,000 grants from IBM for the work they're doing in developing innovative courseware and curriculum in healthcare, transportation, and city planning.
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Intel: New Architecture To Sustain Moore's Law 'for Years to Come'
At a press event Wednesday, Intel revealed design improvements that will allow it to produce significantly faster chips with dramatically reduced power consumption.
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Internet2 and Level 3 Team To Deliver 8.8 Terabit to Schools
Advanced networking consortium Internet2 will be working with Level 3 Communications, which develops fiber-based communications services, to deliver 8.8 terabit capacity to support institutions nationwide, including community colleges.
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U South Carolina Cuts Computer Energy Use with Software
The University of South Carolina's Computer Science and Engineering department is experimenting with software that micro-manages energy use on PCs. The result has been savings of up to 38 percent.
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New Tech-Laden Lectern Promotes Simplicity
A maker of high-tech lecterns has introduced one that doesn't require the instructor to set up a laptop computer to make presentations.
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U Phoenix Takes Classes onto iOS
University of Phoenix owner Apollo Group has released PhoenixMobile, an app that will allow students with iPhone and iPod touch devices to participate in class activities on the go.
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