Tag: Education

• Horns of the Dilemma for Faculty — Campus Technology

  If you teach, or you are student, or staff at a school of any kind, this is the short and sweet summary that is signaling the big and disruptive changes that face education now. As assessment co-ordinator, I’m going to make this required reading for my colleagues. Kids, parents, if you are paying for education…

  Barbara Iverson

  May 7, 2009

  Disruptive Tech, New economic models

  Classroom, Education, Engineering, Journalism education, School

• SMART Table in my Classroom – Pass Me That Video | Space for me to explore

  Okay, I have been known to write about the “big ass table” in sarcastic posts. I was set to let loose on it again, but here is an elementary teacher who has used the device in a literacy project. When the table is used with thought and appropriately, it demonstrates that the media is the…

  Barbara Iverson

  April 28, 2009

  Disruptive Tech, Media, New media, Technology

  big ass table, Education, information literacy, Literacy, Mass media, Media, Microsoft Surface, New media, Technology, Tom Barrett

• If You Don’t Like the News …Dave Winer’s two cents

  If you don’t like the news… (Scripting News). I would also say to the assembled educators — you owe it to the next generations, who you serve, to prepare them for the world they will live in as adults, not the world we grew up in. Teach all of them the basics of journalism, no…

  Barbara Iverson

  April 10, 2009

  Business models, Future of News, News biz

  Education, Journalism, Media, New Roles for Journalists, Newspaper

•   What do journalism students really need today? Poynter event Monday — contentious.com

  From Amy Gahran’s contentious.com blog: On Monday, Mar. 23, 1 pm EDT, the Poynter Institute will host a live online chat: What Do College Journalism Students Need to Learn? It was spurred by a recent (and excellent) post by my Tidbits colleague Maurreen Skowran, Reimagining J-School Programs in Midst of Changing News Industry, which attracted…

  Barbara Iverson

  March 19, 2009

  Journalism

  Add new tag, Education, Journalism, Journalism education, Journalism school, Media, Participatory, Poynter Institute for Media Studies

• Journalism Education Should Be Media Literacy & More

  Dan Gillmor, writing in MediaShift Idea Lab, asserts (and I agree 100%) that: Journalism educators should be in the vanguard of an absolutely essential shift for society at large: helping our students, and people in our larger communities, to navigate and manage the myriad information streams of a media-saturated world. via MediaShift Idea Lab .…

  Barbara Iverson

  February 9, 2009

  Citizen journalism, Future of News, Journalism

  Citizen journalism, Dan Gillmor, Education, Journalism, Journalism education, MediaShift, mobiles, New media