Each week, I try to find different aspects of our article themes. Some articles are short, some are long and some come with videos or slideshows. I was trying to find something that related to Web 3.0 and education, since that is my major and came across this table and had to share. I think it was in our e-mail this week about trying to keep the costs down down for college students and I am hoping that technology can keep helping with that. Last semester, I had a class that didn't use a text, but strictly articles and videos found on the web. And with this class, I feel like we are getting the same kind of thing with all the articles we have read each module. I am very grateful for that! I am also hoping that this would help for low income schools. I know the initial cost of having computers, printers, etc. is expensive, but the low cost of not having to purchase a bunch of books every couple of years would be worth it. So, I am a little random this week, but I also included an article on some statistics I found, specifically relating to low-income schools.
http://teachbytes.com/2013/03/24/what-does-web-3-0-look-like-in-education/
http://www.digitalresponsibility.org/digital-divide-the-technology-gap-between-rich-and-poor/
Ashley,
ReplyDeleteafter reading your articles and post, I wanted to share a piece of information with you. I attended Fort Hays State University before transferring to the online campus of UNK. During the spring semester of 2014, I was going thorough all of my classes getting ready to order books when I realizes that there were none required for two of my classes. After a while, I got an email from my instructor that said that the students didn't have to purchase books due to the fact that the college was starting a new program and wanted to see how it worked out. The college would buy an e-book or copies of it that the staff ans students could access. It was the same thing as a textbook but it was just in PDF form. I really liked how it saved me money and anywhere I had access to internet, I had access to my "book". Now even though the positives heavily out weigh the negatives, the one bad part was that the "book" would logout without warning and occasionally say that you didn't have access to the book. If the internet could sufficiently run these kinds of programs with no problems, I feel that this could be the way of the future with college and even high school courses.