Mark Bauerlin has a good point -- technology is harming the goals of higher education by decreasing the attention spans of readers. It also simplifys how students find information. Before the internet, we students would have to dig through encyclopedias, dictionaries and journals; now ... we google it.
The internet is killing college teachings, but, our society is becoming more and more digital every day. College is fun and we [hopefully] learn a lot, but to stay competitive in the job market and to plan for our futures, college students need to be able to operate efficiently in the digital world. This means being able to scan a website for the important information, find the correct facts we need or the correct documents required for the work we need to do.
With Twitter and Facebook hosting company pages and profiles ranging from Whole Foods to the Chicago Blackhawks to our own personal brands, it is becoming ever important to make ourselves into our own companies. Graduating college students (especially) have to market our skills by using sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter in order to survive in digital workplace.
So the internet may be killing the teachings of universities, but you can't live in a university forever... even Vanwilder moved on.
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