While it is several years old, Trebor Schulz (scholar of digital culture at the New School, NY) has an excellent presentation that makes clear the way that creativity, networking and new forms of social behaviour linked to mobile and connected digital media is changing the expectations of students.
The presentation can be read in two ways. First, it is one of many (but definitely one of the best) which glosses the profound changes which connectivity and digital media bring. There’s beauty in its breadth, though always still questions as to its depth. More importantly, its origins with a scholar of new media and critical Internet Studies suggests that ther perspective we bring to analysing social media really matters. Schulz’s take on education and the future may not be entirely accurate, but it shows a distinct, new breed of academics, the kind of people who critically analyse, but nevertheless work within, the paradigm of new media, perhaps even more easily than the students they teach.
