Great debates are taking place these days over the amount of technology in our lives. Regardless of whether you are a proponent or not, technology is an integral part of our society. Just as Gutenberg forever changed the world by introducing movable type printing (making mass-produced printing possible), new technology, once introduced, changes our understanding of the world and cannot be reversed.
The International Society for Technology Education (ISTE)’s National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) were developed in 1998 to standardize what all K-12 students should know about technology in order to deal with our ever increasing technology-rich world. Consequently, millennials (born between 1980 and the early 2000’s) are entering college already possessing a high level of technical proficiency. College professors can engage these students and enhance their learning experience by designing instruction that utilize students’ technical skills.
What then does a college professor need to know about the skills their tech-savvy students possess? Here are some websites that help answer this question:
