Will iTextbooks increase student engagement? Not really.
Posted by reyjunco on January 30, 2012 in Commentary | ∞
Over at Wired, Tim Carmody wrote a great piece about Apple’s latest foray into the education market – digital textbooks via the iBooks 2 app. Tim hits the nail on the head in his introduction (emphasis mine): Engagement is a big word in education. It combines both objective participation and subjective emotion. It’s one of the [...]
The digital divide in cell phone ownership and use
The following is a summary of findings from a paper that will be published soon in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. For the analyses, we used logistic and hierarchical linear regression to examine the results of a survey of 4,491 students from four universities. Here’s what we found: Cell phone ownership The odds that female [...]
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StudentAffairs.com podcast Interview with Rey Junco
Last week I chatted with Stuart Brown from StudentAffairs.com for the student affairs forum podcast. We spoke about: Variation in technology skills even among students who are “digital natives.” Digital inequalities and how these inequalities are reproduced throughout a student’s educational career. How digital inequalities in technology use can put students from minority racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds at [...]
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