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The Seven Deadly Sins of Technology in Higher
Education: Exposing Our Crimes Against the Future
Sarah “Intellagirl” RobbinsEC Moore Symposium
March 2009
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Technology did NOT create these problems
Technology merely brings them to light
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exerting control to comfort oneself rather than sharing power
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Administrators
“Kent banning athlete Web profiles”
Administrator:"We're really concerned about the safety of our student-athletes and some of the personal information some of them have on there.“
Columbus DispatchThursday, June 22, 2006
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Faculty
“Law professor bans laptops in class, over student protest”
University of MemphisUSA Today 3/21/08
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Students“How much is it worth?”“How long does the paper have to
be?”
“How much do really need to learn?”“I don’t want to accidentally learn
more than I have to.”
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positioning oneself as an expert who cannot learn
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AdministratorsAfter being asked about
student/faculty pilot studies for a new LMS:
“We know what they need better than they do.”
Administrator interviewOct. 2008
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Faculty“I’m not paid to know how to useOncourse. I’m paid to be anexpert in my field.”Instructor interviewFeb. 2009
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Students“I know I’m not going to haveto know this for the job I want soWhy should I bother?”student interviewFeb 2009
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distrusting new methods of acquiring knowledge
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Wikipedia is blocked on all computers in the Warren Hills Regional School District.Seattle Times November 21, 2007
Administrators
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Cathy Davidson, Duke University (2008): the media and academia distrust Wikipedia
because they have not yet figured out how to use the Internet to their advantage.
American Journalism Review
Faculty
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“I hate working in groups. I always end up doing the work and profs never care that other people are being lazy.”
Student interviewJan 2009
Students
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making decisions for students/faculty rather than allowing students to decide for themselves
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Administrators“Ohio University officials say [they’ve
banned all P2P networking] because P2P traffic can consume so much bandwidth -- not because the RIAA sent more copyright infringement notices to Ohio than any other American university.”
WiredApril 2007
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Faculty“If they’re not disciplined enough to not pay attention, let ‘em fail. These are college students.(I graduated in 2005) I found that writing notes made for better retention, due to the fact I could draw diagrams and such.”Wired Campus – Chronicle Forum commentFeb 2009
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“He [the professor] doesn’t understand how to use PowerPoint. Why should I care what he has to say about Wikipedia?”
Student interviewOct 2008
Students
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not wondering what's new or embracing change, lack of intellectual curiosity
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Administration
“The price of textbooks might be out of the average college student's control, but where you choose to spend your textbook dollars is not. It goes back to the law of supply and demand: if enough college students find "creative" ways to buy texts for less money, perhaps the publishers and those who make the buying decisions will get the message.”
Peninsula College Paper1/31/07
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Faculty
“Today’s senior faculty members look at blogs the way a previous generation of academics looked at television — as a guilty, tawdry pleasure that should not be talked about in respectable circles.”Drezner 2005
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Students
“I do enough to get by. Most of my profs don’t really care one way or another.”
Student interview Dec 2008
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assuming that the old ways, or the ways that we were taught are somehow superior
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When asked about the quality of classroom experience:
“Our faculty are world-class researchers.”Administrator interviewAug 2008
Administration
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Faculty“It’s not my job to make learning fun.
Edutainment is just another ‘dumbing down’ of higher education. If they [students] want entertainment they can go watch SpongeBob.”
Faculty interviewOctober 2008
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Students“I got really mad one time when I got a C on a
paper in class. I always got As on papers in high school.”
Student interviewOctober 2008
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inability to change, lack of willingness to embrace the new
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Administration“Zhejiang University, Nanjing University and
Shanghai Jiaotong University launched a rule during the new term that freshmen are not allowed to buy computers. University authorities asserted that this could prevent freshmen from indulging themselves in electronic games.”
China.orgOct 2007
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Faculty"The concept is interesting and well-
formed, but in order to earn better than a ''C,'' the idea must be feasible."--A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith''s paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
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Students“I tell my classes that if they
just do what they are supposed to do and meet the standard requirements, that they will earn a C,” he said. “That is the default grade. They see the default grade as an A.”
Marshall GrossmanNew York TimesFeb. 17, 2009
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Are our approaches -to learning
-to technology -to change“sinful”?
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