Comments on: Twits http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=304 Letting the air out Thu, 17 May 2012 22:51:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: olivander http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=304&cpage=1#comment-5526 olivander Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:19:25 +0000 http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=304#comment-5526 “Most of them don’t know what blogs are.”

Really? Wow. Does this mean that within the span of a decade blogs have fulfilled the same life span–and now reside in the same realm of quaint obsolescence in the minds of young folk–as typewriters?

]]> By: monda http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=304&cpage=1#comment-5525 monda Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:50:35 +0000 http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=304#comment-5525 My Gen-Y students all agree they multitask better than previous generations, and that they work smarter instead of harder. That said, any student caught texting during my class is asked to leave. Call me a curmudgeon, but I'm not competing with social networking during class. Most profs have this kind of rule in their syllabus, and we're not kidding. Not one student in all of my classes this semester has a blog. Not one. Most of them don't know what blogs are. My students live their lives through text messaging, Facebook, and Twitter, a steady, 24-hours-a-day stream of micro information. When we had a shooting on campus this year, Facebook messaging beat the university's emergency notification system by a full 20 minutes. My Gen-Y students all agree they multitask better than previous generations, and that they work smarter instead of harder.

That said, any student caught texting during my class is asked to leave. Call me a curmudgeon, but I’m not competing with social networking during class. Most profs have this kind of rule in their syllabus, and we’re not kidding.

Not one student in all of my classes this semester has a blog. Not one. Most of them don’t know what blogs are. My students live their lives through text messaging, Facebook, and Twitter, a steady, 24-hours-a-day stream of micro information.

When we had a shooting on campus this year, Facebook messaging beat the university’s emergency notification system by a full 20 minutes.

]]> By: Strikethru http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=304&cpage=1#comment-5520 Strikethru Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:46:53 +0000 http://sevenels.net/blog/?p=304#comment-5520 Someday, someone will invent a technology that prevents posts from being EATEN like mine just was... *&^%@ AS I WAS SAYIN, I think that texting/tweeting and other forms of micro communication are merely adaptive responses to the volume and speed of information people are expected to deal with now. Such volumes were unthinkable 20 / 50 / 100 years ago. The only logical response to the expectation that we absorb it all is to reduce the length of our responses. It's the classic project management triangle of time / quality / resources-- where when you have greater demands at one point (in this case, time) it reduces the other point (in this case, quality). I am not sure I see it as a bad thing as much as a tradeoff. Someday, someone will invent a technology that prevents posts from being EATEN like mine just was… *&^%@

AS I WAS SAYIN, I think that texting/tweeting and other forms of micro communication are merely adaptive responses to the volume and speed of information people are expected to deal with now. Such volumes were unthinkable 20 / 50 / 100 years ago. The only logical response to the expectation that we absorb it all is to reduce the length of our responses. It’s the classic project management triangle of time / quality / resources– where when you have greater demands at one point (in this case, time) it reduces the other point (in this case, quality). I am not sure I see it as a bad thing as much as a tradeoff.

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