E-mail: Its been around since 1971 and used to be quite the popular tool, but is it now considered “old fashioned”? Teachers are using it to contact students with important schedule changes or reminders of upcoming homework due dates. Teachers are finding, however, that students don’t check their email for these announcements and some don’t even know that they have a school e-mail.
Why are students, especially college aged, so disinterested in e-mail? According to The New York Times, students are much more interested in social media than they are a 40-year-old electronic messaging system. However, teacher’s find themselves in hesitation to add students as friends on Facebook, as they don’t want to be informed of their social lives. Along with social media, students find text-messaging much more stimulating. E-mail is just “too slow compared to texting”, wrote a teacher to The New York Times.
So, if student’s keep up with the newest technology, shouldn’t teachers? Here at IQ technologies, we think so. That’s why we’ve integrated technology into world of education.
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