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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Kv-KYpD10 This commercial is promoting //Education Connection//, a program on the internet which helps you find the right online college for you. The spokeswoman catches your attention by explaining how you can get your entire college degree while wearing your pajamas. This seems to be a quick and easy way to get your degree and jump right into a career. The spokeswoman even states that people with a degree earn approximately $1,000,000 more in their life time than those who don’t, but this concept felt completely wrong to me. This commercial looks like a big step in the wrong direction to those interested in changing shape of higher education. It’s true that technological advances have made it a lot easier for college students to get through their classes. Laptops and cell phones have given us information at our fingertips. However, working entirely online to receive a diploma is a misuse of technology within higher education. It’s always practical to use technology within education; even some online classes are useful to fit into your schedule while taking other classes. But to change the shape of higher education for the better, we can’t eliminate all social interaction and base it all through the internet. I find that I understand concepts better if I’m working with others, bouncing ideas off one another. Making new friends in class and having a good bong with a professor is the key to a successful education. Therefore, the use of the internet to attain an entire college degree will change the entire experience of college. Sara Miner

Hale Hildebrand 2/12/10 In an article by the International Society for Technology in Education, it was stated that in order for students to achieve in the modern business world they must be well prepared technologically. With education technology comes an improved learning culture, and sense of professional relevance. Education technology must be present in high schools in order to prepare students for college and the professional world. In addition to the primary focus on math and english experts in schools we must also value technology experts who can help the schools achieve their technological opportunity and potential. Teaching the teachers how to use technology well is imperative. Teachers must be able to understand the technology they use in order to successfully teach with it. Technology can help turn around schools that need improvement. It is essential to be connected to the world; consequently, high speed broad band connections should be available at all schools. Access to the global nets involves students in world issues and offers the chance to collaborate on a scale never seen before. Technology is the backbone of education.

http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Advocacy/Top_Ten_in_10.htm

Araiza Flores ENGL 130 P The online text that I found interesting is called “The Changing Shape of Learning” which is about technology and how, along with the “tight budget” it is changing the way that education is given. It gives a sort of explanation on why no one has done anything with respect to budget cuts. The text states that “higher education officials who know how quality suffers from budget cuts are reluctant to admit it, because if they do, they will be accountable for solutions” explaining that such solutions are not that easy to be executed. It also talks about all the other revenues that colleges and universities have and how such institutions can benefit from the advances in technology. Since it is about technology, it gives some advices to higher institutions so they can not only be efficient but also competitive with the use of it. In my opinion I think that this text will be useful for those who want to find an explanation on why nobody has done anything about the problems that budget cuts have brought to higher education. It gives us a reasonable explanation and we can actually think about it so we can consider another person’s point of view. It can also help everyone who is interested in looking for ideas to improve the quality of the education that it has been given in higher institutions throughout decades. This text has some good ideas that are actually affordable and can be great solutions resulting beneficial for both the campus and the students. []

Elizabeth Watters wiki post #3 An option that alot of people forget to consider when looking to choose a college is tuition-free universities and colleges. There are very few of these colleges available throughout the country and the world, but the idea of a tuition free education is a very good one. A serious issue with college students these days is debt. A lost of students receive loans in college, and end up leaving college in horrible debt, and spent a large chunk of their lives repaying that debt. With tuition free colleges, a college student can graduate debt free, having never had to pay for college in the first place. Most of these 'tuition free' colleges are usually specialty schools, for example, they most likely will be liberal arts schools, or ones that specialize in engineering, or music. One of the requirements that a lot of these schools have is that the students log in work hours. In order for them to attend the college, they must also log a certain amount of hours into a certain job. Some colleges even grade the students on their work at the job, as well as their work at school. Because these colleges have such a good idea, to not charge their students, they are some of the most difficult colleges to get into. Everyone wants to attend them. I personally think tuition-free colleges are an amazing idea and they should create more of them throughout the country. i would love to attend one. http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/11/1114_tuitionfree/index_01.htm

Brian Dean Farley-wiki post #3 the article i read concerning protests was titled, " Educational Protests on Tap This Week". it was a relatively short article but even so, it explained a lot about what was and is going on across the state with concern to the higher education budget cut epidemic. it tells the stories of how teachers of every grade level from elemantary school to UC and CSU's. teachers are setting chairs out in front of campuses to signify how many teachers will be receiving pink slips, teachers being laid off come to school wearing all white in their final days while all others dress in all black. parties to promote the protests held at college campuses have, in some cases, become violent with the smashing of windows, vandalism of school buildings and all out chaos. with this happening, not all schools are taking a violent approach. UC berkeley has been specified in this article because of their long history of protest for virtually everything (although....who wouldnt have guessed otherwise, its berkeley). some students are taking a non-violent approach and simply just walking out of class and boycotting school activities in general. with my reading of this article i can now see that this is a huge epidemic that has affected the entire state and that there are a lot of people out there that are so passionate about this cause to actually come forth and speak up to let the government know that education is NOT the place to cut funds from.

http://www.sacbee.com/2010/02/28/2570820/education-protests-on-tap-this.html

Carlene Merino
Wiki Post #3

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This article deals with how students are losing interest in their classes at universities. Michael Delucchi, the author, explains how the percent of college students that are feeling bored in class has risen from around 26 percent to 40 percent, from 1985 to 2000. At this rate college students feeling bored in class today would be around 50 percent, half of students. I think the reason for this might be technology. The huge advance in the past few years even has given students the ability to do things that students 50 years ago never would have dreamed of. So when we have all these luxuries outside of class and are forced to go to a class where a teacher lectures and all you can do is take notes, it is boring in comparison. No wonder older teachers are labeled as “bad teachers” for the most part its not their fault that they were raised with pencils and paper. Students today usually don’t get much out of classes that are structured that way anymore. Some teachers wont let students take notes on laptops. I can see where they are coming from because yes most students do look up other things or play games on their computers while the teacher is lecturing but we are a generation of multi-taskers. We were raised to pay attention and doing other things as well. I think that technology needs to be taken advantage of by teachers, because if they do not use it, their students will end up not learning as much in their classes because they are not “interesting” enough anymore. There is no going back to the old ways because things have changed so drastically that technology NEEDS to be implemented in classrooms.======