Prerequisite: None
Michael Wesch
Cultural Anthropologist, Researcher in Digital Ethnography, and Associate Professor
Kansas State University
KN2:
From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able in New Media Environments
Michael Wesch, Cultural Anthropologist, Researcher in Digital Ethnography, and Associate Professor, Kansas State University
Session Description:
New media create new types of conversation, exchange, and collaboration. But the promise of such developments are not without disruption and peril. This presentation will explore what is at stake, what is possible, and how we need to create new learning environments that allow our students and ourselves as teachers and researchers to move beyond simply being knowledgeable to being knowledge-able (able to find, sort, analyze, criticize, create, and collaborate) in new media environments.
Learning Objectives:
1.) Understand what the term "new media" refers to and how it is used to communicate.
2.) Discuss what types of new media are prevalant in educational institutions today and how that might change in the future.
3.) Understand how design can influence the integration of new media into educational institutions.
4.) Learn how new media can be used in every profession, to facilitate communication between parties.
AIA Continuing Education: 1 LU