"produsers", generation C and some hype from the mobile media conference
If I had the time and could afford it I would have liked to attend the Mobile Media 2007 conference. It was held at the University of Sydney and the full title of the conference was this: 'an international conference on social and cultural aspects of mobile phones, convergent media, and wireless technologies'. Nonetheless I attend through the lives of others and their extension in the blogosphere which I invite you to look at through Playful Identities, Most Mobiles and amongst others Snurb's blog. Some people have been kind enough to provide reviews, put papers online and extend conversations to the public. Thank you even if you never read this.
What's the fuss about for me today? Well there's the article in the Australian:
'Hi-teach carrots to tempt generation C' by Milanda Rout. The Australian, Higher Education, July 18th 2007.
It refers directly to Jude Smith and Axel Bruns and their [warning: pdf] paper/presentation at the Mobile Media conference, saying that 'traditional tertiary learning is under threat from generation C'.
Architect Hamilton Wilson has teamed up with the University of Queensland to look at what lecture spaces of the future should be like and the connection they will have to teaching and technology.
Mr Wilson said teaching was evolving from knowledge-based to understanding-based, where students collaborated and interacted more with material than just reading books and writing essays. "New technologies have forced this hand," he said about the change in teaching practices.
"But this active learning is abetter way to teach in the firstplace."
Source: http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22091792-12332,00.html
Last Accessed 18th July 2007
The example they give is something about walls and screens that switch between what they're calling instructive and collaborative. I worry about teachers/lecturers using this equipment to do the same thing they were doing without the equipment. I also wonder whether this is actually responding to the much weightier challenge presented by the initial Smith and Bruns stuff. In any case, I shouldn't complain too much because I risk feeding fuel to the technophobic fire.
Very shortly I will be reading [warning: pdf] the paper which is obviously more substantive than the fast food version from the Australian. [warning: pdf] This paper also is on my to-read list. I found the links to both of them on Bruns's blog post.
What's the fuss about for me today? Well there's the article in the Australian:
'Hi-teach carrots to tempt generation C' by Milanda Rout. The Australian, Higher Education, July 18th 2007.
It refers directly to Jude Smith and Axel Bruns and their [warning: pdf] paper/presentation at the Mobile Media conference, saying that 'traditional tertiary learning is under threat from generation C'.
Architect Hamilton Wilson has teamed up with the University of Queensland to look at what lecture spaces of the future should be like and the connection they will have to teaching and technology.
Mr Wilson said teaching was evolving from knowledge-based to understanding-based, where students collaborated and interacted more with material than just reading books and writing essays. "New technologies have forced this hand," he said about the change in teaching practices.
"But this active learning is abetter way to teach in the firstplace."
Source: http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22091792-12332,00.html
Last Accessed 18th July 2007
The example they give is something about walls and screens that switch between what they're calling instructive and collaborative. I worry about teachers/lecturers using this equipment to do the same thing they were doing without the equipment. I also wonder whether this is actually responding to the much weightier challenge presented by the initial Smith and Bruns stuff. In any case, I shouldn't complain too much because I risk feeding fuel to the technophobic fire.
Very shortly I will be reading [warning: pdf] the paper which is obviously more substantive than the fast food version from the Australian. [warning: pdf] This paper also is on my to-read list. I found the links to both of them on Bruns's blog post.
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