I remember discussing Twitter with a colleague at an academic conference back in 2009. "We have to start using it," he told me. I asked why. His answer: "The kids are using it."
That argument underscores all that I find wrong with the application of technology in higher education. In recent years, professors have heard much about the virtues and promise of new technologies, painted as the saviors of an irrelevant higher-education system that has grown out of touch with today's learners. It has reached the point that some of us believe there is something wrong with us if we do not adopt these technologies in our teaching. But proponents of the new learning technologies seem to ignore the human side of using them. They seem content simply to shill for hardware and software companies, forgetting that just because we can do something does not mean we should
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So when is the Rhodes Library going to have a Twitter account??
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