These excerpts from e-learning2008Britt Watwood’s (from Virginia Commonwealth University) take on Barry Dahl’s (Vice President of Technology and the Virtual Campus at Lake Superior College in Duluth MI) keynote echo what I have been observing at our University in St. Louis. Students don’t know the context of technology. Sure they know how to text message on their phones and would rather text than listen to most lectures. But that doesn’t make them technology savvy. They aren’t learning anything from texting, nor are they expanding their social networks. It’s merely another way of communicating with the same people. It might gain bragging rights to have a huge number of friends on your Facebook site, but again, what are they teaching you and you them?