[Web4lib] Students' use of Technology

[Andrew Hankinson]

Hi folks,

I saw this article this morning and thought I'd pass it along.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/09/17/it

I particularly found these paragraphs interesting:

Instead, students appear to segment different modes of communication  
for different purposes. E-mail, Web sites, message boards and  
Blackboard? Viable ways of connecting with professors and peers. Same  
for chat, instant messaging, Facebook and text messages? Not  
necessarily, the authors write, because students may “want to protect  
these tools’ personal nature.”

“They’re using social networking sites like crazy, but they don’t  
necessarily think those have a place in the classroom,” said Gail  
Salaway, one of the primary authors and a fellow at ECAR.

It brings to my mind some of the questions that have been asked on  
this list regarding the place of Libraries on social networking sites  
like Facebook.

Cheers,
Andrew