The Digital Melting Pot:
How Student’s Use the
Internet, and How We Can Too!
Academic Advising & Career Centre
Staff Development, December 2006

Why Learn About This Stuff?
• Well, it doesn’t take a genius to know that it is
important to know what our students are
doing, and how they are communicating,
socializing…well, just plain existing nowadays!

Give it to Us Straight
• Student’s frequently use the Internet for
socialization & entertainment
• With students spending an average of 6.5
hours utilizing media forms (including TV,
video games, and the computer) per day, and
87% of 12-17 year-olds using the internet,
students are coming to college with their
online personas as a very important facet of
their personalities (Hempel & Lehman, 2005)