Event Title
What Does it Mean to Teach Digital Natives: An Epistemological and Pedagogical Shift
Location
Moakley Auditorium
Start Time
16-1-2009 11:30 AM
End Time
16-1-2009 12:20 PM
Description
Traditional subjects and pedagogical approaches were developed in a different world. Our students, enmeshed by virtual social worlds, from Twitter and Facebook, mediated by such devices as the ubiquitous Blackberry, sometimes exhibit what Larry Lessig has called the movement from a “Read Only” to a “Read/Write” media and textual literacy. New literacies, new modes of knowledge production, reproduction and dissemination represent profound social, technological and epistemological changes. They are “digital natives.”
This lecture presents more questions than answers. In it, I ask, how have these innovations transformed the epistemological ground of our students? How must we recognize, adapt, engage and learn about how to mesh our knowledge with the digital epistemology of their world? As they learn from us, what can we learn from them? What must we learn from them, in order to better engage them, and learn about ourselves?
What Does it Mean to Teach Digital Natives: An Epistemological and Pedagogical Shift
Moakley Auditorium
Traditional subjects and pedagogical approaches were developed in a different world. Our students, enmeshed by virtual social worlds, from Twitter and Facebook, mediated by such devices as the ubiquitous Blackberry, sometimes exhibit what Larry Lessig has called the movement from a “Read Only” to a “Read/Write” media and textual literacy. New literacies, new modes of knowledge production, reproduction and dissemination represent profound social, technological and epistemological changes. They are “digital natives.”
This lecture presents more questions than answers. In it, I ask, how have these innovations transformed the epistemological ground of our students? How must we recognize, adapt, engage and learn about how to mesh our knowledge with the digital epistemology of their world? As they learn from us, what can we learn from them? What must we learn from them, in order to better engage them, and learn about ourselves?