<p>An email was forwarded to me this morning that had the following text in it (I've anonymized "The College" but it's a large, well-regarded four year university.)</p><p>The College is Going Google! What does this mean? How will it impact teaching and learning at The College? Many K-12 school districts are using Google Apps for Education, providing their students with access to Google productivity tools as early as primary school. Students coming to The College in the next five years may never have opened Microsoft Word, but will be familiar with sharing, collaborating, and publishing with Google tools. Are you ready?</p><p>I spend time at a few universities, including MIT and CU Boulder. I'm teaching a class this semester at CU Boulder with Phil Weiser and Brad Bernthal called "Philosophy of Entrepreneurship." We had our first class last week Brad Bernthal led so Phil and I sat in the back. I noticed a bunch of students with their email open during class almost every one of them was using Gmail.</p><p>A meme went around a few years ago that kids using Facebook would never use email and that Facebook would replace Microsoft Outlook and Gmail. This never really made sense to me, especially since I'd already heard that text messaging would replace email, and then I heard that X would replace email, and now it was going to be Facebook. As much as email frustrates us, it's still by far the most ubiquitous comm channel.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/evidence-of-google-winning-the-generational-shift-over-microsoft-2013-1">Keep reading...</a></p>