This is very tongue in cheek but I think it's on point regarding the kinds of mistakes that we all make in our reactions to the way tech has changed the higher ed landscape.
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The Seven Deadly Sins Of Technology In Higher
1. The Seven Deadly Sins of
Technology in Higher
Education: Exposing Our
Crimes Against the Future
Sarah “Intellagirl” Robbins
EC Moore Symposium
March 2009
2. Technology did NOT create
these problems
Technology merely brings
them to light
4. Administrators
“Kent banning athlete
Web profiles”
Administrator:quot;We're really concerned
about the safety of our student-athletes
and some of the personal information
some of them have on there.“
Columbus Dispatch
Thursday, June 22, 2006
6. Students
“How much is it worth?”
“How long does the paper have to
be?”
“How much do really need to learn?”
“I don’t want to accidentally learn
more than I have to.”
8. Administrators
After being asked about
student/faculty pilot studies for a
new LMS:
“We know what they need better than
they do.”
Administrator interview
Oct. 2008
9. Faculty
“I’m not paid to know how to use
Oncourse. I’m paid to be an
expert in my field.”
Instructor interview
Feb. 2009
10. Students
“I know I’m not going to have
to know this for the job I want so
Why should I bother?”
student interview
Feb 2009
13. Cathy Davidson, Duke University (2008):
the media and academia distrust Wikipedia
because they have not yet figured out how to
use the Internet to their advantage.
American Journalism Review
Faculty
14. Students
“I hate working in groups. I always end up doing
the work and profs never care that other
people are being lazy.”
Student interview
Jan 2009
15. making decisions for students/faculty
rather than allowing students to
decide for themselves
16. Administrators
“Ohio University officials say [they’ve
banned all P2P networking] because
P2P traffic can consume so much
bandwidth -- not because the RIAA
sent more copyright infringement
notices to Ohio than any other
American university.”
Wired
April 2007
17. Faculty
“If they’re not disciplined enough to not
pay attention, let ‘em fail. These are
college students.
(I graduated in 2005) I found that writing
notes made for better retention, due to
the fact I could draw diagrams and such.”
Wired Campus – Chronicle Forum comment
Feb 2009
18. Students
“He [the professor] doesn’t
understand how to use PowerPoint.
Why should I care what he has to say
about Wikipedia?”
Student interview
Oct 2008
20. “The price of textbooks might be out of the
average college student's control, but
where you choose to spend your
textbook dollars is not. It goes back to
the law of supply and demand: if enough
college students find quot;creativequot; ways to
buy texts for less money, perhaps the
publishers and those who make the
buying decisions will get the message.”
Peninsula College Paper
1/31/07
Administration
21. “Today’s senior faculty members look
at blogs the way a previous
generation of academics looked at
television — as a guilty, tawdry
pleasure that should not be talked
about in respectable circles.”
Drezner 2005
Faculty
22. “I do enough to get by. Most of my profs don’t
really care one way or another.”
Student interview
Dec 2008
Students
23. assuming that the old ways, or the
ways that we were taught are
somehow superior
24. When asked about the quality of classroom
experience:
“Our faculty are world-class researchers.”
Administrator interview
Aug 2008
Administration
25. Faculty
“It’s not my job to make learning fun.
Edutainment is just another ‘dumbing down’
of higher education. If they [students] want
entertainment they can go watch SpongeBob.”
Faculty interview
October 2008
26. Students
“I got really mad one time when I got a C on a
paper in class. I always got As on papers in
high school.”
Student interview
October 2008
28. Administration
“Zhejiang University, Nanjing University and
Shanghai Jiaotong University launched a
rule during the new term that freshmen
are not allowed to buy computers.
University authorities asserted that this
could prevent freshmen from indulging
themselves in electronic games.”
China.org
Oct 2007
29. Faculty
quot;The concept is interesting and
well-formed, but in order to
earn better than a ''C,'' the idea
must be feasible.quot;
--A Yale University management
professor in response to Fred
Smith''s paper proposing
reliable overnight delivery
service. (Smith went on to
found Federal Express Corp.)
30. Students
“I tell my classes that if they
just do what they are
supposed to do and meet
the standard requirements,
that they will earn a C,” he
said. “That is the default
grade. They see the default
grade as an A.”
Marshall Grossman
New York Times
Feb. 17, 2009