Ever since the 17th century, the
"advancement of learning" as Francis Bacon called it, has depended upon the way print publications have organized the evaluation and dissemination of academic work. The print medium has been the default scholarly medium.
print is no longer the primary intellectual medium, and it is time for scholars to move forward.
Knowledge has new habits, new identities, and a new social life within the radically transformed ways in which communication takes place today.
We must have a
scholarly communications system configured to the predominant
communications medium of the new millennium.
Academics who refuse to transform the way they communicate and value information will find, like the professional journalists, that they simply won't play much of a role in the knowledge commons.
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James O'Brien: Hands-on Education
2009 PopTech Fellow James O'Brien assembled a staff of like-minded educators to create BCAM - Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School. The fledgling educational-innovation tank combines performance-based academics and professional training in media and arts to prepare teenagers for success in the 21st century."
university teaching. Lecturers, in the main, repeat what was done to them.
In suggesting a focus on learning rather than teaching - ie, on what the learner rather than the teacher does
teaching will be considered important to the extent that both people and knowledge are considered important
And if teachers manage to foster the kind of qualities noted above, it is by how - rather than what - they teach, and that is why appropriate training courses are important
shift some attention from the impersonal to the personal,
headshotDr. Greg Elmer, (gelmer at bell.blackberry.net) Director Infoscape Research Lab & Bell Globemedia Research Chair, Ryerson University
Greg Elmer (PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst) is associate professor of Communication and Culture and Radio TV Arts at Ryerson University. Greg's research and teaching focus on new media and politics, information and communication technologies, computer networks, and media globalization. Greg provides analysis and commentary for the media on the role of new media in Canadian and American politics. In the fall 2008 Greg worked with CBC-The National on its internet coverage of the Canadian federal election. In 2007 Greg joined Ottawa's The Hill Times as a political columnist.
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