national handwriting day

[Lynne Murphy]

--On Friday, January 12, 2007 8:50 am -0800 FRITZ JUENGLING
<juengling_fritz at SALKEIZ.K12.OR.US> wrote:

>  I really
> wonder what these kids think about and how they deal with the world
> around them.  I guess they just ignore a lot of things.

I just read an interesting article that kind of relates to this discussion.
(It was assigned reading for our university's planning conference on
Monday.)

Frand, Jason L. 2000. The Information Age Mindset: Changes in students and
implications for higher education.  Educause (Sept/Oct), pp. 15-24.

There's a summary of Frand's 10 characteristics of an information age
mindset learner at:

<http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/InfoKits/effective-use-of-VLEs/intro-to-VLEs/introtovle-student/frands-10-char>

tata,
Lynne

Dr M Lynne Murphy
Senior Lecturer and Head of Department
Linguistics and English Language
Arts B135
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QN

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