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Chris Long

Social Media's Slow Slog Into the Ivory Towers of Academia - Josh Sternberg - Technolog... - 0 views

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      This is a good way to illustrate the huge shift in perspective faculty need to face.
  • Sarah Smith-Robbins, professor and Director of Emerging Technologies at the Kelly School of Business at Indiana University, teaches a course called "Social and Digital Marketing." "We go over the theories behind social media: why do things go viral, the social theories of how people act and how they communicate to a network, or one person at a time, and why do certain tools work they way they do for us,"
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      Too bad the focus is marketing here.
  • Professor Vorvoreanu agrees: "I don't think you have the credibility of doing research, of writing about, unless you get to really know that culture. And the best way of knowing the culture is to actually be immersed in it."
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  • God forbid we learn something from our students.
  • "The students teach each other much more than they used to," he said. "They need some guidance on how to do that, and they need a little bit of an awakening because they've been in a kind of test-trance for so many years."
Allan Gyorke

THATCamp - an unconference about technology and the humanities - 2 views

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    I thought you would be interested in seeing this. There are a variety of different camps focused on the use of technology in the humanities. They are organized as unconferences, meaning that topics are often spontaneous and the events are very cheap. Look at the list - there is one on pedagogy, one on games, etc...
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