News and commentary about the intersection of information technology, politics, and policy presented by the members of Digital Politics, a course at Hamilton College.
That sounds kind of nice :) I think that things are somewhat different for students though. At school, we definitely have to keep up with our e-mail (I received 21 e-mails between Friday afternoon and Saturday afternoon when I was without my computer this past weekend). Things like Blackboard and the HamTech blog and Splanwiki and the research tools available on the internet are just a few examples of how students are coming to rely more and more on the internet as a way of succeeding in the classroom. For the most part, though, my homework consists of reading books and writing papers, and so things like the internet, my cell phone, and my ipod are my breaks. I have not yet reached the point where I associate work with the internet. I wonder if a "virtual break" would have the same effect for a student who does the majority of his or her work offline and uses the internet to escape. I suppose I could try...
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That sounds kind of nice :) I think that things are somewhat different for students though. At school, we definitely have to keep up with our e-mail (I received 21 e-mails between Friday afternoon and Saturday afternoon when I was without my computer this past weekend). Things like Blackboard and the HamTech blog and Splanwiki and the research tools available on the internet are just a few examples of how students are coming to rely more and more on the internet as a way of succeeding in the classroom. For the most part, though, my homework consists of reading books and writing papers, and so things like the internet, my cell phone, and my ipod are my breaks. I have not yet reached the point where I associate work with the internet. I wonder if a "virtual break" would have the same effect for a student who does the majority of his or her work offline and uses the internet to escape. I suppose I could try...
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