Archive for the ‘ Facebook ’ Category

Fall 2011 Facebook App for Financial Aid

What do you get when you smash Bill Clinton, a UNLV grad, MTV, Bill and Melinda Gates, College Board, and Facebook? No, not that. (It was my first guess, too.)[ READ MORE ]

CourseSmart Research Reveals College Students Lerve Their Digital Devices

The findings further reveal that students are completely dependent on technologies—eReaders, Smartphones, laptops and more—to get through their daily college routine. Nearly all of the students surveyed (98%) own a digital device. And 38% of students surveyed said that they could not go more than 10 minutes without checking in with their tech device—about the same amount of time it takes to walk to class[ READ MORE ]

When Nursing Students Skip Ethics Class

Have we not learned this particular life lesson yet? The combination of Facebook and photography is one of the most treacherous of our time[ READ MORE ]

Teaching Privacy

Screwed anyone over publicly lately? Virally or plain old socially[ READ MORE ]

Michael Wesch: TED Talk On Media and Teaching Students to Become Knowledge-Able

Watch it. It takes about 15 minutes; that’s less time than it takes to drink a cup of coffee. And no way one cup of caffeine will blow your mind like Michael Wesch can[ READ MORE ]

Internet Use Among U.S. College Students

There’s a new paper out about Internet use among U.S. college students. It’s short and sweet (fully readable in one quick sitting). I tend to enjoy research studies that observe, record, and number-crunch as a phenomenon is happening. Seriously, I’m the one on the tour of Monticello who’s way more amped about what Jefferson was [ READ MORE ]

Music That Makes You Dumb

I love it when people find new and exciting ways to use their information-aggregating skills. Virgil Griffith is a busy guy, and he still found time to whip this up. You can read more about him and his brainiac antics in the New York Times Magazine, in Wired, and on this WSJ blog. His site [ READ MORE ]

Kaplan SAT Prep Tools on Facebook

While I’m usually one to veer away from technology, I have always maintained that it does have its place in the education realm. Kids these days (is there any way to avoid sounding like my grandmother when I use that phrase?) rarely separate themselves from technology, and as much I adore a Ticonderoga #2, they [ READ MORE ]

Online Reputation Logic

Again I say: there but for the grace of All Things Holy go I. A phone call to my parental units might be in order so I can thank them excessively for bringing me into this world at a time when computers took up entire rooms, tiny technology was available only in science fiction books, [ READ MORE ]

Freshman Norms Survey

UCLA does an annual survey of incoming American undergrads. The CIRP Freshman Survey is part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) and is administered by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. The 2007 freshman norms are based on the responses of 272,036 first-time, full-time students at [ READ MORE ]