CI 102 Blog-Marshall's food plan

After hearing about another university's meal plan. On their meal plan, they are given 86 dollars weekly, in point form much like how Marshall uses flex points. After the week is up, if they have not spent all 86 of these dollars, the extra dollars roll over to the following week. Plus, at the end of the year, all the points they have left over can be turned into gift cards at participating establishments around the university. They can spend these points in local restaurants like Taco Bell, Buffalo Wild Wings, as well as gas stations and markets where they can buy essentials and even gas with the 86 dollars a week they are given.

For paying as much as we do, you would think they would be able to give us options like these and rewards for attending they're great university. I'd never heard of Akron University (the one whose meal plan I described above) until my friend attended there but it sure sounds like a not-so-popular university sure knows how to treat their students. Im jealous...

21st Century Education Methods in college

In our CI 350 class we have mainly talked about using the methods of 21st Century Education in an elementary school setting. I'm sure we all agree that the methods used are more likely to grab the attention of younger kids and get them to work harder than if they were simply looking at a text book and listening to a lecture. In college, on the other hand, professors have went through numerous years of school to learn everything they can about a particular subject and eventually teach and test college students. Much like in elementary schools, it has always been that there are lectures, homework, and tests. While 21st Century Education methods seem practical in an elementary setting would it work in a college setting? Would professors ever feel that students working together and using technology based methods to learn would be as effective as lecturing and notes?

Personally I can't see college professors using the 21st Century Education Methods in their classrooms. It is apparent that these methods have done great things for elementary schools but what happens when these kids get to high schools and college and have to go back to the old method of listening to lectures? Granted that many teachers in high school and college are beginning to use power point presentations and other computer based methods, they are still lectures and fairly different from what 21st Century Education plans to do with their classes. Would this become a problem? Only time will tell.