Dr. Miller's Lecture

  Dr. Miller a professor at Rutgers University gave a lecture on teaching in the digital age. He brought up some great points that I never thought of as a student. Since the internet information has become "ubiquitous" and because of this students have loss curiosity and creativity. Websites can be very shallow. Websites are information cramped into about three pages, compare that to a book that is over 300 pages. The internet has everything so how can you find good information. We think that research is just getting information, it is about opening up a new realm of experience. Students need to have the motivation to not just answer the question being asked but why that is the answer or how that is the answer. Since he was talking to teachers about teaching in the digital age he advised them to use Drigo for teaching. It moves reading into the public eye by publishing the research. Other ways of using the internet to our advantage is blogging, which is what I am doing now. Dr. Miller made the statement "If we release all the time we spend infront of the television we can build a better world."