Social Media’s Slow Slog Into the Ivory Towers of Academia
Via Scoop.it - Media Literacy
Underpinning a disdain for social media in higher ed is the assumption that students have an inherent aptitude for new technologies… “As faculty, we’re always trying to engage our students better,” Smith-Robbins says. “If we see them using a tool like Facebook, there’s this huge temptation to say, ‘Well, I use Facebook in class,’ because that’s where they’re at. More times than not, it doesn’t work because it has to be a pedagogical decision first, rather than a technology decision. Plus, all these tools have their own culture and if you try to use them for something different, you’re more often than not going to make mistakes.”
Via theatlantic.com
