Tag: Journalism education
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Confessions of an Aca/Fan: What Is Learning in a Participatory Culture? (Part Two)
Our students are already appropriating information from the Web and turning it into new knowledge. They are already learning from each other and participating in the learning of their peers. They already connect, create, collaborate, and circulate information through new media. The goal for us, as educators, is to find new ways to harness and…
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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…
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CUNY Journalism goes “trackless”
Image by biverson via Flickr This is a good idea. Not even ahead of its time. This is what the schools should have done several years ago. Better late, than never. Jeff Jarvis in buzzmachine says, “At CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism we just told the students that they no longer need to commit to…
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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…
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Why teach journalism if newspapers are dying? a Since You Asked column by Cary Tennis | Salon Life
So I do not think it is such a terrible thing that your journalism students are entering an uncertain world. It’s the kind of world that is ripe for enterprising journalists. It is the kind of world that needs to be reported on and explained. Leave it to your students to create new modes for…
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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 .…
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The process of the interview has the reporter hold all the cards in his hand: who he talks with and what he will reveal to each and what he will say in the end, without links to what any of the parties has said. Then the reporter gets to toss it all on the table.…
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BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » No bullshit here Lots of this is just “he said” but “I really said,” and interesting to journalism insiders. But toward the end of his funny self-defense, Jarvis hits on something that should be a discussion and then an assignment in Journalism classes everywhere. Is the old-style one-on-one interview a dead-end narrative form? Sure, if you are trapped in a waiting room that has no Wi-Fi or cell connectivity, you might pick up a magazine and read an interview as JJ describes. It represents, not objectivity, no matter what the earnest reporter may say. It is a narrative that is valuable only in its selectivity, because otherwise it would be a transcript or unedited recording. If we aren’t trapped off the grid, who wouldn’t read an interview, and check Wikipedia, google someone mentioned in the article, look up a word or do a fact-check, while reading a story online? We need to be pushing our students to explore contextualized, interactive, multi-layered narratives. Reporters need to move their own words off the stage a bit, and allow the interviewees words, blog posts, and all the other tweets, jotts, and status updates, that make up one’s online persona to share the stage through links and other interactive experiences. That’s what I think.
The process of the interview has the reporter hold all the cards in his hand: who he talks with and what he will reveal to each and what he will say in the end, without links to what any of the parties has said. Then the reporter gets to toss it all on the table.…
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Persistant theme: Why are J students so close-minded? Who instill that in them?
Rob Curley, Mid-western wonderkind of effective journalism in our world of constantly changing technology posted this question for J-schools. As a J prof who came to the field via multimedia, I am stunned by the close-mindedness of students and faculty. Why is it so? Amy Gahran took this up yesterday in E-media Tidbits, calling it …
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