[Innovate] December/January Issue

Innovate this month has a couple of articles dealing with today's students.

Innovate (www.innovateonline.info) is published bimonthly as a public service by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern Innovate (www.innovateonline.info) is published bimonthly as a public service by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University and is sponsored, in part, by Microsoft. Thearticles in the December/January issue illuminate how to work and teach more effectively in a digital world; our Innovate-Live webcasts, produced by our partner, ULiveandLearn, allow authors to discuss their articles with readers in a synchronous format.

[stuff deleted]

Finally, we offer two commentaries on bridging the gap between tech-savvy Net Generation students and their instructors. Jennifer Summerville and John Fischetti describe what they call "the loophole generation" and offer strategies for combating online cheating, bullying, and excuse making. [See http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=343&action=article]. Their webcast is scheduled for December 11, 2007 at 2:00 PM EST.

Lynn Zimmerman and Anastasia Trekles Milligan team up to offer perspectives from both sides of the technological and generational divide, discussing how technology has changed the way students view both linguistic conventions and the etiquette of instructor-student relations. [See http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=338&action=article]. Their webcast is scheduled for December 11, 2007 at 1:00 PM EST.

Once the schedule to chat with the authors is released, I'll post that for these two sessions as well.

Tags: open source, online journals, e-journals, academy, digital natives, generational differences, virtual school, cyber school, high school, education