Podcast #31: Are Our Students REALLY Tech Savvy?

We are back after being away for a week.  Jason was under the weather and my laptop was getting a new fan so that it wouldn't sound like an airplane engine anymore.

This week's podcast focuses on two items from the Information Technology section of the May 2, 2008 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The first one is a "Linked In With" interview with Eszter Hargittai, an assistant professor in Northwestern University's sociology department.  Dr. Hargittai studies the technological fluency of students.  Even though it is a one column article, it stopped me dead in my assumptions about our students' technological know-how.

We explore the second item, Free Textbooks, An Online Company Tries a Controversial Publishing Model, within the framework of the information we gleaned from Dr. Hargittai's short interview.