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9/21/2005
“Switching to ANGEL was easier than we expected, and we’re glad we did.” It’s common feedback from institutions that switch to ANGEL from other course management systems. ANGEL’s migration tools make switching easy, and the payoff is big – higher adoption rates, tools that save instructors’ time, engaged students. Find out for yourself why ANGEL users are glad they switched.
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By Helen L. Chen
Stanford University
Who are the students entering today’s colleges and universities? Sometimes referred to as the Net Generation or Millennials (students born in or after 1982), we know that this is a group that has never known a world without computers and the Internet. The Kaiser Family Foundation recently released a study on “Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 year olds” which found that not only are children and teens interacting with media (including TV, videos, music, video games, computers, movies and print) for non-school activities on average 6 hours per day, but a quarter to a third of these students are multi-tasking, and using another form of media while reading, using a computer, or listening to music. Video game designer and writer Marc Prensky uses the metaphor of digital natives vs. digital immigrants to suggest that these kinds of experiences (video game playing, interactions via instant messaging, email, and cell phones, watching MTV) have actually changed the physical structure of digital natives’ brains, how they think, and consequently how they learn.
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