"From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments"

5:36 AM | by The A-Team
According to Michael Wesch from Kansas State University, he said that most university classrooms have gone through a massive transformation in the past ten years which is they practice new media environments. This new media environment can be enormously disruptive to our current teaching methods and philosophies. As we increasingly move toward an environment of instant and infinite information, it becomes less important for students to know, memorize, or recall information, and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique, and create information. They need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able. This is because, nowadays, most of the lectures class does not used traditional media as a medium of learning. Meanwhile, they are more prefer to used new media technology.

Unfortunately, many teachers only see the disruptive possibilities of these technologies when they find students Facebooking, texting, IMing, or shopping during class. Though many blame the technology, these activities are just new ways for students to tune out, part of the much bigger problem, where the fact is that many students are now struggling to find meaning and significance in their education.

Nothing good will come of these technologies if we do not first confront the crisis of significance and bring relevance back into education. In some ways these technologies act as magnifiers. If we fail to address the crisis of significance, the technologies will only magnify the problem by allowing students to tune out more easily and completely. Moreover, with total and constant access to their entire network of friends, we might be walking into the food court in the student union and trying to hold their attention. On the other hand, if we work with students to find and address problems that are real and significant to them, they can then leverage the networked information environment in ways that will help them achieve the “knowledge-ability”.

Article by: Michael Wesch, Kansas State University (2009)

Source: http://www.academiccommons.org

Summarized by: Nashwani Fizrin binti Nasaruddin (2008285678)

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  1. The A-Team Says:
    August 28, 2010 at 6:19 AM

    The title of this article is, "From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environment". The space for the title are limited. So, the title cannot fully appear. Hope, you guys enjoy reading! And, Selamat Hari Raya! :)


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