{"id":179,"date":"2006-05-09T08:38:48","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T12:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2006\/05\/09\/is-e-mail-obsolete\/"},"modified":"2006-05-09T08:38:48","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T12:38:48","slug":"is-e-mail-obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2006\/05\/09\/is-e-mail-obsolete\/","title":{"rendered":"Is e-mail obsolete ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dell4k12.com\/netday\">Netday &#8220;Speak Up&#8221; survey<\/a> by Dell and Bell South suggests that while teachers are increasingly using email to communicate to students, students are increasingly abandoning email for instant messaging (including cell phone SMS).<br \/>\n&#8220;Students have told us that eMail is still valuable&#8211;mainly for storing and transmitting documents and for communication with adults,&#8221; said Julie Evans, chief executive officer of the nonprofit group NetDay. &#8220;IM is more valuable to them because it is instant, and they can speak with multiple people at the same time. I believe that this highlights a greater sophistication in student tech use&#8211;and a trend for us to watch.&#8221;<br \/>\nIn addition to instant messaging, students are more likely to use social networking tools like MySpace and Facebook to support their  communication habits. &#8220;At least 50 percent of students, by the 12th grade, have some sort of personal, MySpace-like web site,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This generation of learners seeks community online.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nLinks:<br \/>\neSchool News Staff, For students, eMail already is outdated, May 3, 2006. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschoolnews.com\/news\/PFshowstory.cfm?ArticleID=6297\">http:\/\/www.eschoolnews.com\/news\/PFshowstory.cfm?ArticleID=6297<\/a><br \/>\nNetday &#8220;Speak Up&#8221; survey results, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dell4k12.com\/netday\">http:\/\/www.dell4k12.com\/netday<\/a><br \/>\nNetday &#8220;Speak Up&#8221; survey tool 2005, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netdayspeakup.org\/\">http:\/\/www.netdayspeakup.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Netday &#8220;Speak Up&#8221; survey by Dell and Bell South suggests that while teachers are increasingly using email to communicate to students, students are increasingly abandoning email for instant messaging (including cell phone SMS). &#8220;Students have told us that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2006\/05\/09\/is-e-mail-obsolete\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pedagogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}