Social Media's Slow Slog Into the Ivory Towers of Academia - 2 views
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John Dolan on 02 Sep 11Underpinning a disdain for social media in higher education is the assumption that incoming students have an inherent aptitude for new technologies "If you took a soldier from a thousand years ago and put them on a battlefield, they'd be dead," Howard Rheingold, a professor teaching virtual community and social media at Stanford University, told me one morning via Skype.
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John Dolan on 02 Sep 11A shoutout to Chris Long for finding this first!