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		<title>Are Colleges Adequately Preparing Students for IT Jobs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In another blog I sponsor, there is an ongoing discussion concerning the failure of colleges to adequately prepare students for IT jobs. One theme that has emerged is our failure to focus on problem prevention and problem solving. In the world of software development, this is a key aspect of software development. In order to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techademia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7144666&amp;post=68&amp;subd=techademia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ethics vs Immunity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my courses, there is always a discussion of ethics focusing on the responsibilities we have to protect the public in our technology focused work.  Particularly in my software development classes we review the IEEE/ACM Code of Ethics and discuss in detail the individual responsibility every software developer has to maintain high standards in their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techademia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7144666&amp;post=65&amp;subd=techademia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Has Social Media Replaced Cocktail Parties</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much of the guidance we provide our students extends beyond the classroom into their professional lives.  Similar to real estate where &#8220;location, location, location&#8221; are the key success factors, &#8220;network, network, network&#8221; are the key factors for professional success.  Many educators grew up in an environment where formal and informal face-to-face gatherings &#8211; such as cocktail parties [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techademia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7144666&amp;post=23&amp;subd=techademia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation and Hype</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 19:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is common for us to teach that innovation is the only way that IT companies can survive in the current business environment.  But what do we really mean by that statement?  We often focus too much of our energy on only one side of the innovation equation &#8211; creating the environment and structure within which new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techademia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7144666&amp;post=48&amp;subd=techademia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning is Not Simple</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe that learning &#8211; real learning &#8211; can only be accomplished when several elements are in place: opportunity, interest, knowledge, exploration and in some cases encouragement. If there isn&#8217;t an opportunity to learn &#8211; and I do not just mean a physical space &#8211; but an educational environment, then learning can not occur. So [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techademia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7144666&amp;post=54&amp;subd=techademia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing our Students.  For What?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A post by TechRepublic identifies the top 10 skills a developer will need in the next 5 years   http://i.techrepublic.com.com/downloads/dl_10_skills_dev.pdf   These skills include being fluent in systems, languages and tools such as .NET, Java or PHP; Python, Ruby or Goovy; Flash, REST SOAP; and IDE environments such as Visual Studio and Eclipse.  Emphasis is also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techademia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7144666&amp;post=44&amp;subd=techademia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media &#8211; A Great Teaching Tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have learned so much from my students.  Over the past few years I have been an ardent learner on how to use social media as a teaching tool.  In our recent class on IT Trends and Issues, my students decided to use a collaborative wiki to create a survey to distribute through Google Docs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techademia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7144666&amp;post=37&amp;subd=techademia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Worlds &#8211; The New Face of E-Commerce</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended a conference recently.  It was an all day event that included speakers from a variety of business, government and industry sectors.  The conference activities were located in three buildings: an auditorium for the speaker presentations; an exhibition hall where a number of companies in the security industry presented their products and gave away gifts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techademia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7144666&amp;post=29&amp;subd=techademia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Technology and Ethics &#8211; What&#8217;s Your Flavor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ethics - accountability, responsibility, integrity &#8211; staying the course.  Technology - innovation, creativity, market share - pushing the limits.  Can these two be reconciled?  We have all heard about the technology horror stories like Therac-25 where the evil technology villains are obvious.  We recite the IEEE/ACM Code of Ethics by heart that proscribes us from harming the public.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techademia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7144666&amp;post=24&amp;subd=techademia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Net Generation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early stirrings of the Internet, at a time when Howard Rheingold was talking with passion about the emerging virtual communities, the uproar began.  The faceless Internet will be the downfall of real community and culture.  Smart people &#8211; professors from famous universities - joined the foray stating that research indicated that the result of these virtual communities [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techademia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7144666&amp;post=1&amp;subd=techademia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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