The Net Generation Comes to College! (Part of the Teaching First Year Students series)
Facilitators - Tim McMahon & Scott Huette
“Digitally literate, connected, immediate, experiential, social, teams, structure, engagement and experience, visual and kinesthetic, and things that matter.” Educating the Net Generation, Diana and James Oblinger
A recent (2005) online study of college students at Ball State University found the following:
- 97 percent had a cell phone
- 68 percent sent text messages with their cell phones
- 14 percent sent instant messages with their cell phones
- 50 percent listed instant messaging as their top choice in communicating
- 44 percent said they couldn't live at college without instant messaging
- 66 percent log on to instant messaging programs several times a day
- 56 percent spend an hour or more daily sending instant messages
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