higher education in the fourth screen age
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The fourth screen has created an age of connectedness, where people's lives are inextricably connected to social media, how can higher education harness the benefits of social media? No matter what we think of social media, we cannot wish it away. We need to embrace that and start empowering ourselves to use social media well.TRANSCRIPT
Higher Education In The Fourth Screen Age
Rethinking the Role of Higher Education
I TEACH…
WHAT’S YOUR SUPERPOWER?
Outline
• How the 3rd and 4th screens have revolutionized what we do and how we do it•What are we to teach? (Skills)• How are we to teach? (Methodology)• Access challenges in Africa
The Fourth Screen
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V-2qQS3NY0&index=3&list=FLSYjwlK_DcWZhXMgPs7l7CA
Everything is Connected
YouTube
One Billion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUCfFcchw1w
Social Media Revolution 2013 Video
So what is the fuss about social media?
Information is Accessible
Information in CONTEXTCONTEXT
Making sense
ofMaking sense of
information
Communication and
production of knowledge
Social media is challenging higher education to return to its fundamental value of training minds to make sense of information
Bibliography• Sue Beckingham, The Role of Social Media within Higher
Education in an Age of Openness andPublicness, Sheffield Hallam University, 12th Annual Durham Blackboard Users Conference
• Rachel Reuben, The Use of Social Media in Higher Education for Marketing and Communications: A Guide for Professionals in Higher Education
• Pearson Learning Solutions, Teaching, Learning and Sharing: How Today’s Higher Education Faculty Use Social Media (April 2011)
• Tom Chatfield, Can schools survive in the age of the web? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121123-can-schools-survive-the-web-age, 23 Nov 2012
• Prabhakar Jampa, The Education Gap• David Beer, Social media’s politics of circulation have profound
implications for how academic knowledge is discovered and produced, blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences
