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THE 24-HOUR CONNECTION: This generation’s students wired in around the clock

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THE 24-HOUR CONNECTION: This generation’s students wired in around the clock

There is an increasing lack of face-to-face contact between people these days. Even when communication has occurred all day, time can pass without any real physical contact ever having occured.

An unplugged weekend in a plugged-in world

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An unplugged weekend in a plugged-in world

For man to survive, he needs only three things: food, water and shelter. Ask anyone nowadays, however, and he will tell you that it is impossible to live without things like the Internet or their cell phone.

Good manners transcend time and medium

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Good manners transcend time and medium

Twitter, Facebook, blogging, Skype, and texting were all nonsensical jargon to us a decade ago, lol, but thanks to social media and the Internet they are now part of our everyday vocabulary.

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Survey questions student-teacher interaction

Recently, The Signal staff and the Communication Association at the University of Houston-Clear Lake concluded a year-long survey to determine how technology has changed the student-teacher interaction in the classroom. Surveys were distributed via the Internet and through print surveys handed out at various campus activities.

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Polite practices replaced by Tech-no etiquette

Move over baby boomers, technology boomers have just about taken over the classroom; which means the University of Houston-Clear Lake is not the university of old. There has been a tremendous shift in the way professors and students conduct themselves in class with the evolution of technology.

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