'' Technology and the college generation’’
According to the article “Technology and the College Generation’’ adapted from Courtney Rubin, students do not care about e-mail. Even though that’s the way teachers communicate with them, students don’t use it. According to Reynol Junco, students’ spent 123 minutes a day on computers, by 31 minutes, on social networking. What surprised me about this article is when the author points out that students prefer social media to e-mail, but most professors are uncomfortable “friending” students on Facebook.
Social media helps the professors to communicate with their students. On the other hands, teachers do not feel comfortable with having their students as a friend on Facebook. Teachers think that there is a another solution to solve the problem like e-mail, but an experiment by Dr. Junco an associate professor of library science at Purdue, shows that students use only six minutes of the 123 minutes they spent on computer on e-mail.
Unfortunately this is reality. Before I entered college, I wasn’t a fan of e-mail. I made my e-mail account when I began college. My friend who is studying business in college thinks that e-mail is old and outdated. According to him, teachers need to be updated and they have to star living in the new generation.
A few months ago I read an article that said in fact students are moving away from e-mail in their personal lives; students e-mail accounts will probably diminish in popularity in the next few years. Therefore this will force colleges to rethink the most reliable ways to stay in touch with their students. Even though there is a conflict between teachers and students because of the e-mail, students need to pay attention to their teachers and do the best to finish their assignment.