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The Digital Divide
Bill Clebsch
Joel Smith
Bruce Vincent
Karen Van Dusen
Common Solutions Group January 2005
Bill Clebsch CSG, January 2005
Digital Immigrant Digital Native
Movie Scenes Cut twice per minute
Information fromNewspapers / TV News
Computers as a Tool
Escape “Off the Grid”
TV Sports
Movies Scenes Cut 20 times per minute
The Word from the Web / Comedy Central
As a Living Space
Grid Provides Escape
Online Gaming
Instant Messaging
What is the Divide? About 1986!
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Immigrants Forecast the Future of Education
for Natives
Stanford’s Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Predicts Future Trends of Student’s IT Requirements
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Student Computer LiteracyECAR: Skill Levels AttainedAPPLICATION MEAN
Email 3.6
Instant Messaging 3.5
Word Procesing 3.5
Web Surfing 3.4
Presentation (PowerPoint) 2.9
Online Libraries 2.9
Spreadsheets 2.9
Course Management 2.8
Graphics (PhotoShop etc.) 2.5
Create Web Pages 2.1
Create/Edit Video 2.0
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How Digital Natives Look at Universities
Stanford’s Director of Admissions
Reveals her Experiences Talking with Prospective Students
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Immigrants “Gone Native”
Stanford’s Academic Computing Guru
(at high-tech Wallenberg Hall)
Delineates the Gulf between
Immigrant Faculty and Native Students
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Impressions of Students
Video Clip from a Video made by a Stanford Student
“Stanford is in the heart of Silicon Valley, but Silicon Valley in not in the heart of Stanford…”
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How Students Spend TimeECAR: Activities & Hours Spent per WeekACTIVITY MEAN
Classroom & Homework using electronic device 4.0
Writing - Word Processing 3.8
Surfing the Net - Pleasure 3.5
Email 3.5
Instant Messaging 3.4
Downloading Videos / DVDs 3.2
Course Management 2.5
Library Resources 2.5
Computer Games 2.4
Online Shopping 2.1
Create Spreadsheets 2.0
Create Presentations (PowerPoint, etc.) 1.9
Graphics (Photoshop, etc.) 1.8
Web Pages (create, edit, etc.) 1.4
Create/Edit Video / Audio 1.3
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Faculty Perspectives
“What about the model where I talk and they listen?”
“Wireless is great, but please turn it off in my classroom.”
“Every year I’m another year older, and every year the freshmen are 18”
The Digital Divide Discussion
Students / Faculty / Staff
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Is there one?
Instant messagingpart of the student culture
UTexas: 79% of students, 15% of faculty
faculty fear increased cognitive load for students
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Is there one?
P2P – many of us caught shortlegal liability
bandwidth
Google as “the” source for answers
What others?at CMU, Blackberries for execs
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How do we find out when there is?
Efforts range from minimal to extensive market research
<URL for survey collation>
Faculty complaints
Student complaints
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Do our constituents care?
“I want you where I am”
Student concerns aboutfaculty accessibility
content accessibility
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Do our constituents care?
Faculty concerns aboutadd’l workload from making content available
Class distractions (wireless, cell phones)
Research integrity
Cheating
Others?
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Do we care?
“We” used to introduce new technologies – now it’s often culturally imposed (not always by students!)
Probably some responsibility for due diligence
legal
service quality
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Do we care?
What’s our policy role in “bridging” the gap?
None?Information only?Increase literacy for new tech?
Who decides what the campus learns/adopts?