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They're Not Like Us: Shouldn't We Do Something About That?

5/27/2004

Calls for additions to curriculum are often ignored. And there are incredibly deep turf-ish issues about required courses, credits, departmental authority, and so forth. But the fact is that no one else is training young people about either their own appropriate behavior in the information technology infrastructure that, barring a complete worldwide economic collapse, is the substrate of the rest of their professional lives. (And personal lives-do you "get" facebooks or online dating? I don't. But the use of IT by young people to create and use social resources has huge current growth.) What's more important for the rest of this millennium, exposure to humanities, good English, a foreign language, required math credits, or being able to navigate cyberspace without causing harm or needlessly exposing yourself to harm? What was it worth to the University of Michigan than Jonathan Oberheide knew what the right thing to do was? Wouldn't it be nice if every junior knew?


About the author: Terry Calhoun is Director of Communications and Publications for the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP). You can contact him through CT's IT Trends forum by clicking here. View more articles by Terry Calhoun.

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