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Originally Posted by DNSB
One of my great-neices is enjoying a university education. The textbooks for one of her courses are ebooks. What her professor for that course tends to say is read the first three chapters on the Krebs cycle leaving up to the student to find the chapters. For specific bits and pieces, he gives the first words of the section and the students are expected to search for them. A generation for whom Google was always there seems to have no issues with that procedure.
Regards,
David
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I'm sure
I'm equally sure that there are more than a few old-school teachers at all levels in the education system, who will be adamantly opposed. You may say fire those teachers who are not up to helping their Grade one students search with all of their various devices but we know that isn't going to happen and I don't really think it should.
As an aside, what University is your Great niece attending? Last summer I worked with a 24 year old student attending the University of Victoria and majoring in English. She has never used an ereader and looked a bit aghast when I offered to lend her one of mine. She has a laptop and an iPad so is not a complete technophobe, and very Google literate, just totally not interested. Currently she is working her way through the classics and is fully aware that she can get most of them free, but despite the fact that she is paying her own tuition and has loans to pay, is just not interested and seems to feel that she is in a majority group in this regard at UVIC at least among English Majors.
How do your great niece's professor's deal with that I wonder?
Helen