Cyberspace and American Dreams essays

Cyberspace and American Dreams essays A Magna Carta of the Information Age" Though reading this article and the class discussions, I felt that this was a very interesting article. Here we strayed into a very grey area of todays cyberspace domain. How do we institute rules and regulations to apply to the Internet? But more interesting to me was the discussion of this article about teachers using technology and where the class room is headed. If you divide the two so called groups you have the second wave teachers and the third wave teachers. The majority of classes which are offered on campus now come for second wave teachers. Teachers who use very little modern day technology in their class are the second wave. It seems that in a majority of classes that I have taken over the past three years, few teachers use the technology at their finger tips. They stick to the fashion of writing on the board or using basic overheads for notes. Little do they realize that there are so many more unexplored opportunities to communicate their knowledge to the classroom. Simple animations included into a PowerPoint presentation would become more valuable than simple note taking. This way the student could see what the professor is actually talking about, the student could see the object in the animation and would reference the meanings easier. Like what Dr. Davis said the first class, if you can see, interact, and discuss you retain 90% of the knowledge learned, compared to a simple 10% while taking notes. If the education department at the college required making the professors use modern technology in their lectures, the overall student GPA would probably rise. Students should be able to customize the ways that they learn, not have to adapt to what others want us to learn. Currently, there should be no reason why we havent already established this feat. The technology is there for students to earn different degrees from schools across the ...