Word: instantism
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...should see a higher proportion of undergraduate courses with lively and unspecialized content, taught using creative instructional methods. Especially as we develop new and revised offerings for general education, we must not rush. If faculty are in a hurry to get their courses certified, and if students demand instant and infinitely flexible menus of offerings, established courses will just be relabeled, providing little improvement in content or pedagogy...
Students with friends at Virginia Tech sought to reach them through overloaded phone lines, instant messaging, and Facebook...
Coming from Virginia, I know dozens of students at Tech. I found out about the attack from a flurry of online instant messagers most to the effect of “This is so fucked up…are you following this?” I scrambled to contact everyone I knew, even people with whom I had lost touch...
...Students with friends at Virginia Tech sought to reach them through overloaded phone lines, instant messaging and Facebook...
...flip side of the instant-attention era is the gotcha era. We may be more inured to shock than ever, but when someone manages to find and cross a line, we're better able to generate, spread and sustain offense. You get eaten by the same tiger that you train. Imus got special love from the media over the years because his show was such a media hangout. But when the controversy erupted, it snowballed in part because the media love to cover the media...