The Google Generation

About the Program

Do you find new technologies fascinating? Are you interested in learning how technology, vis-a-vis life on a laptop campus, affects your reading, writing, researching, and learning? If so, this is where you belong.

Who's Eligible

  • First Year Freshmen
  • Most majors are eligible
  • English placement score equal to or greater than 101
  • No prior college credit for ENGL 101

Classes You'll Take

TCS-103 Information and Communication Technologies (3 cr.)

Examine the impacts of information and communication technologies on individuals and the global society and how its utilization affects personal, educational and professional growth. This course meets the General Education Technology requirement.

ENGL-101 Freshman English - Composition (3 cr.)

Principles and practices of writing. This class fulfills 3 of the 8 credits for the Communication Skills General Education Requirement.

Where You Will Live

This is a non residential learning community and is not linked to a resident hall or floor. On campus and commuter students welcome.

What We Do

Coming soon.

Faculty and Staff

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Name: Kevin Tharp

Contact: tharpk@uwstout.edu

 
Hobbies and Interests:
  • Social Media
  • Hunting, fishing, boating, floating, canoeing, biking and other things that you do outdoors.

The most interesting thing I have done is: My a hard thing to pinpoint. I believe that life is about the Journey so I'm always looking to squeeze as much excitement out of life as I can. One thing of particular interest is that I was able to teach about technology in a one room schoolhouse in a remote fishing village in Australia. From that experience I learned that I am supposed to be a teacher. I also learned that the rhythm inmost places I have lived seems to be tied to the cycle of traffic lights, but the rhythm of that fishing village was tied to the rising and falling of the tides.

 

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Name: Daisy Pignetti

Contact: pignettid@uwstout.edu

 
Hobbies and Interests: Traveling, reading, blogging, learning new research methods, watching TV on DVD, and Twittering.

The most interesting thing I have done is: Like Kevin, I too had an amazing experience in Australia, but in my case it was because my husband and I got married there! When you’re in a PhD program and trying to write your dissertation, the last thing you need is the stress of planning a wedding. One day we joked about eloping there instead of just thinking of it as a honeymoon destination and within 6 emails I had it all sorted out. Talk about technology making my life easier!

Community Profile

Number of Participants: 25

Living Location: Not Applicable

Classes: ENGL 101 and ICT 103 (Information and Communications Technologies)

Duration: Fall Semester


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