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Very interesting survey on differences between students and faculty on the use of technology DENVER -- Professors think they are doing reasonably well when it comes to using technology in the classroom, according to a survey released here this week by CDW-G at the annual meeting of

Educause. Not everyone agrees with the faculty view of things.Consider these statistics from nationally representative samples of students and faculty members

(at two- and four-year institutions, public and private). Asked about their use and their institutions' support for technology, professors said the following:

75 percent said that their institution "understands how they use or want to use technology."67 percent are happy with their own technology professional development.

74 percent said that they incorporate technology into every class or almost every class.64 percent said that they teach in what they consider to be a smart classroom.

Sounds like a technology savvy professoriate. But when students were asked whether their professors understand technology and have integrated it into their courses, only 38 percent said Yes. Further, when students were asked about the top impediment to using technology, the top

answer was "lack of faculty technology knowledge," an answer that drew 45 percent of respondents, up from 25 percent only a year ago.

And only 32 percent of students said that they believed their college was adequately preparing them

Staying Current with TechnologyKindle for the Academic

November 3, 2009By Alex Golub

E-book readers are all the rage these days --

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Tweeting in ClassNovember 5, 2009

DENVER — Do Twitter skeptics really believe the popular microblogging service

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Hope or Hype on the CloudNovember 5, 2009

DENVER — Meeting in the Mile High City, it was inevitable that the 2009 Educause

Staying Current with TechnologyFive Tech Themes for 2010

By JENNA WORTHAMThe third wave of mobile applications - information into a program for analysis.

Location, location, location: Start-ups like Hot Potato, Foursquare, Grindr and

UrbanSpoon have generated a lot of buzz for their forays into the mobile location-

based arena, but it’s only the beginning — particularly in light of the new geo-location features made available to

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Continued decline of the wireline: Close to a quarter of households in the United States

rely exclusively on mobile phones, according to a recent report from the

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Web TV: As my colleague Nick Bilton pointed out a few weeks ago, ditching the set-top box and watching TV online is little more than a few clicks away. But

while his set-up was admittedly more complicated than simply connecting your laptop to a big screen, it will get easier in 2010. In addition to start-ups

like Clicker and SetJam aiming to make it easier to find what you want to watch

online, Apple may even start peddling a

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All Your Memories Belong to the Web: Evernote, the popular note-taking service, recently announced it had hit a

major milestone by surpassing two million

Staying Current with TechnologyGoogle’s Nexus One phone or Apple’s

iPhonePico’s mini projector