As technology has become a larger part of our culture the way students search for information has changed. For most people the days of looking up information in a bound copy of an encyclopedia are long gone. When searching for information most people �Google it� first, and then go to various other resources on the internet. Using a smartphone or other mobile device answers to questions can be found almost instantaneously any place a phone can be used! Does this mean books and other traditional methods of transferring information (such as lecture) are no longer valuable? No! But it is important for teachers to carefully consider how a students' time is used both in, and outside of the lecture hall or classroom. Technology increasingly can, and often should, be used to improve the learning experience a student has when working with a given subject material. Technology also offers novel methods for the assessment of student learning. Advances in online course homework and testing systems allow instant feedback, customizable remediation, and a far larger bank of questions than is typically possible with a traditional text book. This talk will discuss how general chemistry classes at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have changed to take advantage of the technology available to students today.

Rethinking how we teach general chemistry in the world of Google, the internet, and smartphones

246th National Meeting (2013)

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