Monday, April 2, 2012

Extra Credit Blog #1

On Monday, March 26, 2012 I conducted an interview with Dr. Gregory Blimling, the Vice President of Student Affairs for Rutgers University. Our time was spent discussing my research paper topic on privacy, identity, social networking websites, and technology for college students and the modern era. 

Here are some quotations based on Blimling's point of view and opinion on these topics. 
"Things have changed a lot. Higher education has been dramatically changed by social media the past seven years. The Facebook issue: I don't think I know someone who does not have a Facebook."


"We are in constant conversation and communication with one another"
"We adopt habits of texting where we feel this impulsive feeling and thought. The problem is making personal conversations public in some circumstances."
"Technology forms a different kind of community with a different kind of privacy."


"Technology makes people always available. But today everyone's communication is recorded. Everything I said can be recorded without my knowledge, with cell phone cameras."


"Students need to be taught about how things can be taken out of context."


"Laws have not caught up to where we are today."


"My observation is that students will stop coming to class. Instead, they will come to the university for other things, like access for things to complete their courses. Faculty members will begin marketing themselves as interactive teachers. We will become more visual about doing things. People will take in information differently and we be more aesthetic learners. We will have different language skills where we do not necessarily talk in complete sentences or thoughts."

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