Teaching the Net Generation without Leaving the Rest of Us Behind: How Technology in the Classroom Influences Student Composition

Politics and Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 169-194

  Moody, Ruth H ^a   Bobic, Michael P ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer Assisted Learning; Net Generation; Netizen

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953117613     PISSN: 15555623     EISSN: 17471346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-1346.2011.00287.x     Document Type: Article

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