The Digital Divide Bill Clebsch Joel Smith Bruce Vincent Karen Van Dusen Common Solutions Group January 2005

CSG, January 2005Bill Clebsch Digital Immigrant Digital Native Movie Scenes Cut twice per minute Information from Newspapers / TV News Computers as a Tool Escape “Off the Grid” TV Sports Movies Scenes Cut 20 times per minute The Word from the Web / Comedy Central As a Living Space Grid Provides Escape Online Gaming Instant Messaging What is the Divide? About 1986!

CSG, January 2005Bill Clebsch Immigrants Forecast the Future of Education for Natives Stanford’s Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Predicts Future Trends of Student’s IT Requirements

CSG, January 2005Bill Clebsch

CSG, January 2005Bill Clebsch Student Computer Literacy

CSG, January 2005Bill Clebsch How Digital Natives Look at Universities Stanford’s Director of Admissions Reveals her Experiences Talking with Prospective Students

CSG, January 2005Bill Clebsch

CSG, January 2005Bill Clebsch Immigrants “Gone Native” Stanford’s Academic Computing Guru (at high-tech Wallenberg Hall) Delineates the Gulf between Immigrant Faculty and Native Students

CSG, January 2005Bill Clebsch

CSG, January 2005Bill Clebsch Impressions of Students Video Clip from a Video made by a Stanford Student “Stanford is in the heart of Silicon Valley, but Silicon Valley in not in the heart of Stanford…”

CSG, January 2005Bill Clebsch

CSG, January 2005Bill Clebsch How Students Spend Time

CSG, January 2005Bill Clebsch Faculty Perspectives “What about the model where I talk and they listen?” “Wireless is great, but please turn it off in my classroom.” “Every year I’m another year older, and every year the freshmen are 18”

The Digital Divide Discussion Students / Faculty / Staff

CSG, January 2005Bill Clebsch Is there one? Instant messaging part of the student culture UTexas: 79% of students, 15% of faculty faculty fear increased cognitive load for students

CSG, January 2005Bill Clebsch Is there one? P2P – many of us caught short legal liability bandwidth Google as “the” source for answers What others? at CMU, Blackberries for execs

CSG, January 2005Bill Clebsch How do we find out when there is? Efforts range from minimal to extensive market research Faculty complaints Student complaints

CSG, January 2005Bill Clebsch Do our constituents care? “I want you where I am” Student concerns about faculty accessibility content accessibility

CSG, January 2005Bill Clebsch Do our constituents care? Faculty concerns about add’l workload from making content available Class distractions (wireless, cell phones) Research integrity Cheating Others?

CSG, January 2005Bill Clebsch Do we care? “We” used to introduce new technologies – now it’s often culturally imposed (not always by students!) Probably some responsibility for due diligence legal service quality

CSG, January 2005Bill Clebsch Do we care? What’s our policy role in “bridging” the gap? None? Information only? Increase literacy for new tech? Who decides what the campus learns/adopts?