1. Description

You are asked to assess the learning and networking attitudes of your students.

After you have done this, answer the questions asked in part 4. Note that Teamwork TC01A03CS should be based on personal assignments.

2. Method

Method: One of conversations with students,surveying students using (self-created, or Tenegen on-line) questionnaires, or a summary of earlier experiences with your students.

If you decide to use the on-line Tenegen questionnaire, ask for a code from your tutor. Students will use this code as the value in the first field of the questionnaire in order to anonymously identify themselves.
The code (TENXX) will be used for selecting the set of records filled out by the students of a particular tutor. After finishing the on-line survey, the tutor will be provided with an Excel table with the student data.

3. Keynote

The American institute EDUCAUSE published a study in 2005 with the title "Educating the Net Generation" (1). This study was based on a survey which involved several thousand high school, college and university students between the ages of 16-25. The questions focused on the issue of whether there was a generational difference with earlier ones, with distinguishing features in the habits of behavior, learning and acquiring knowledge. The answer, according to the survey, was definitely "yes". It is obvious that the age-group between 16-25 was born into the information era (they were born between 1982-1991). In this study the names of the various generations are:

Great generation: 1900-1946
"Baby boom": 1946-1964
Key generation: 1965-1982
Milleneum generation: 1982-1991 (net generation)

4. Questions

• What are the students' attitudes toward learning in your own country (students between 13-18 years of age)?
• Are you familiar with their networking attitudes? If so, can you describe them?
• How important are virtual communities for them?
• Is the expression: "they are always turned on” true for them?
• How could the time spent on the Internet be better utilized at school? Do we have the tools, methods, or approaches to do this?

5. Formal requirements

You can select from the following options:

a) publish an essay in your own learning diary (within or outside of Moodle)

If you select this option, you must provide a link to your blog entry.

b) write your answers directly in this on-line assignment.

Remarks:
- You are free to submit the assignment several times - only the last version will be evaluated.
- You will be able to submit even after the deadline, but they will not be assessed. Try to meet the deadline if possible.

6. Evaluation

Submittals will be evaluated by the tutor. A maximum of 15 points can be earned with this assignment.

Remarks:
- You are free to submit the assignment several times - only the last version will be evaluated.
- You will be able to submit even after the deadline, but they will not be assessed, so please try to meet the deadline if at all possible.

Reference
(1) Diana G. Oblinger and James L. Oblinger: "Educating the Net Generation", EDUCAUSE, 2005. http://www.educause.edu/educatingthenetgen EDUCAUSE - EDU College And University System Exchange
(2) Tenegen questionnaire: http://www.tenegen.eu/course/mod/questionnaire/view.php?id=570