https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0957.pdf
Campbell, W. Gardner. “Personal Cyberinfrastructure.”
Campbell claims that computer-growth-style progress is needed in the classroom using computers and the internet. In other words, higher education is leagues behind its economic and social counterpart's digital presence.
Campbell begins the article with a quote from the American Council of Learned Societies, introducing the problematic term 'cyberinfrastructure'. In a bid to persuade readers of his competence in the cyberinfrastructural field, and of the salience of his argument, he states "...few people understood how to bring students into this world..." (i,e: But I do!). The first application of this article in a classroom scenario would consist of questioning its clarity, purpose, and cogency (perhaps as part of a more general effort to encourage students not to take their texts' validity for granted). I would then go on to ask them about their experiences of using digital media in the classroom and for work, given that the slightest age difference would produce radically different trajectories. The article, while problematic, would be a good starting point for discussion.
The most glaring problem seems to be Campbell's insistence on anthropomorphising higher education, as though it is a single entity. In doing so, he ignores the fact that higher education is itself a vast and complex network spanning continents and socio-economic levels - which demographic is he referring to when he speaks of 'higher education?' Higher education is not a person that 'looks itself in the mirror.' It failed to keep up in the sense Campbell means because it's a network: thinking about it like a person is wildly reductive and does little to explain its perceived digital inadequacy.
The issue of digital fluency should surely lie earlier in a student's life - as early as possible. To leave digital training until the age he implies would be doing a disservice to his own agenda: to produce digitally savvy students who are fit for and flourish in society.