Digital divides? Student and staff perceptions of information and communication technologies

Waycott, Jenny; Bennett, Sue; Kennedy, Gregor; Dalgarno, Barney; Gray, Kathleen

doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2009.11.006

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“…Este conjunto de transformaciones introduce importantes cambios en la concepción que los nativos digitales futuros profesionales de la comunicación poseen de los medios de comunicación y en el tipo de usos que realizan de las redes sociales. (WAYCOTT, et al, 2010). Ambos aspectos exigen cambios imprescindibles en el escenario académico para garantizar una formación adaptada a las nuevas nece sidades formativas que introduce la red de redes.…”

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Estudiantes universitarios ante los retos formativos de las Redes Sociales: El caso de Colombia

Tornero

Tejedor

Solà

et al. 2015

Estud. Mensaje Period.

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ResumenEste artículo analiza los retos formativos de estudiantes universitarios colombianos de Ciencias de la Comunicación con el objetivo de diagnosticar su uso de las redes sociales. Se han realizado encuestas a 71 estudiantes y 12 grupos focales. Los resultados muestran que los estudiantes analizados utilizan las redes sociales como herramientas complejas que les que les permiten formarse, participar, informarse, co operar, trabajar y entretenerse. Los estudiantes demuestran un alto nivel crítico y de conocimiento de las ventajas y desventajas de las redes. Las conclusiones muestran que las redes sociales son un reto forma tivo para las nuevas generaciones de estudiantes de Comunicación ya que su practicidad, inmediatez y eficacia, las convierten en una fuente periodística prioritaria, que debe ser también tenida en cuenta por los formadores de los futuros periodistas. Palabras clave: Redes sociales, Universidad, Uso Pedagógico, Comunicación, Internet. University Students Faced with the Formative Challenges of Social Networks: Colombian Case StudyAbstract This article analyses the formative challenges of Colombian University Students from the Faculty of Communication Studies. The principal aim of this research is to identify their use of the social networks. Seventyone surveys and 12 focus groups were carried out. The results show that students in the sample use the social networks as complex tools that allow them to train, inform, participate, cooperate, work and entertain themselves. The students demonstrate a high critical level and an important knowledge of the advantage and disadvantages of the networks. The conclusions demonstrate that social networks are a formative challenge for the new generations of Communication students. Their effectiveness, imme diacy and efficiency make them a fundamental journalistic source that needs to be taken into account by faculty of future journalists.

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Estudiantes universitarios ante los retos formativos de las Redes Sociales: El caso de Colombia

Tornero

Tejedor

Solà

et al. 2015

Estud. Mensaje Period.

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“…As we learned in our departments, engaging the different generations can be challenging (Pfeil et al, 2009;Waycott et al, 2009). Baby boomers and even gen-Xers tend to be suspicious of new technologies as fad, whereas gen-Yers are more open, and gen-Zers appear to be fully digital in orientation.…”

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Initial Experience in Moving Key Academic Department Functions to Social Networking Sites

Dennis¹,

Thiruvathukal²,

Läufer³

2011

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Database Technologies

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Abstract:We discuss our initial experience with the transition from conventional technology to social networking sites and other cloud-backed sites for three core business functions of two academic departments, of computer science and history, at a mid-size private university: course management, research and administrative collaboration, and community engagement. We first discuss the social/cultural context that informs our technology choices, as well as the evolution of the technology choices themselves. Then, we identify the targeted department functions and their actors. Next, we describe the past and present technical architectures used to support these functions. We conclude with a discussion of our preliminary experience with this transition and to what extent our experience can be generalized into a blueprint that can be adopted by other organizations.

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“…These include studies in the United States (Hargittai, 2010;Salaway, et al, 2008;Smith, et al, 2009;Borreson Caruso. 2010) andCanada (Salajan, et al, 2010;Bullen, et al, 2009) , Australia (Judd and Kennedy forthcoming;Kennedy, et al, 2006Kennedy, et al, , 2007Kennedy, et al, , 2008Kennedy, et al, , 2010Oliver and Goerke, 2007;Waycott, et al, 2009), United Kingdom (Margaryan, et al, 2011;Jones and Healing 2010a;Jones and Hosein 2010;Jones and Cross, 2009;Selwyn 2008), other European countries (Schulmeister, 2010;Ryberg, et al, 2010;Pedró, 2009), South Africa (Thinyane, 2010;Brown and Czerniewicz, 2010;Czerniewicz, et al, 2009), Chile (Sánchez, et al, 2010) and Hongkong (McNaught, et al, 2009). This empirical evidence from around the world, in contrasting economic conditions, shows that today's young students repeatedly prove to be a mixture of groups with various interests, motives, and behaviors, and never a single generational cohort with common characteristics.…”

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Networked Learning, Stepping Beyond the Net Generation and Digital Natives

Jones

2011

Exploring the Theory, Pedagogy and Practice of Networked Learning

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Digital divides? Student and staff perceptions of information and communication technologies

Cited by 291 publications

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Estudiantes universitarios ante los retos formativos de las Redes Sociales: El caso de Colombia

Estudiantes universitarios ante los retos formativos de las Redes Sociales: El caso de Colombia

Initial Experience in Moving Key Academic Department Functions to Social Networking Sites

Networked Learning, Stepping Beyond the Net Generation and Digital Natives

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