[Air-l] email is 'out'

[Deanya Lattimore]

Sylvia, you may be feeling old, but I'm sure that you're not looking 
it, LOL.

This article should be renamed, "Email is for People Who Are Too Busy 
To Be Slaves to Their Blackberries."  Age as a variable is being 
conflated with responsibility, so the studies of usage are flawed atm.

I teach freshmen, and one of two things is going to happen:
either they will learn that in order to be productive, they will have 
to abandon their "I'm always available" strategies OR
the workforce will have to adapt to people who think it is perfectly 
fine to text message and step out of the room during meetings to take 
phone calls.
I don't know WHICH it is going to be, but my students don't seem to 
understand that being available all of the time means that one's 
overall productivity is substantially reduced.

Which one's it gonna be?

Deanya
:-D.






On Saturday, October 14, 2006, at 08:16  AM, Sylvia Korupp wrote:

> Just saw an interesting article that made me smile and look quite old.
> SK
>
>
> Teens: E-Mail Is For Old People
>
> Excerpts: For some schools, the correct answer is: set up a MySpace
> page. After all, there's nothing hipper for students than being
> "friends" with your college registrar or school principal. The
> intriguing thing about this method of reaching students is that it's
> most often not "instant" at all; students receive messages when they 
> log
> in or they visit the school's MySpace pages - the equivalent of using
> e-mail and a Web portal.
>
> * Source: Teens: E-Mail Is For Old People, Nate Anderson, ars technica,
> 06/10/02
>
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7877.html
>
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