School of Management Visit Day 25th January 2014

1. Education for a Digital World
Lisa Harris
@lisaharris
January 2014

2. What technologies are referred to here?
“It will create forgetfulness in the learners'
souls, because they will not use their memories.“
(Socrates, 469-399BC)
“The modern world overwhelms people with data
and this is confusing and harmful to the mind”
(Conrad Gessner, 1565)
Technology will kill… (Eric Qualman)

3. Why Curriculum Innovation?
“Traditionally academics view the world through the
eyepiece of a single discipline. But the real world is not
like that, it is by its very nature interdisciplinary and can
only be deeply understood when viewed from multiple
perspectives. ”
Mark Cranshaw, Understanding Modern China
University policy is now directing us towards
multidisciplinary research that:
1) feeds directly into teaching and
2) encourages student participation at all levels

4. Digital Literacy
• “Digital literacy is the ability to
locate, organise, understand, evaluate, and analyse
information using digital technology. It involves a working
knowledge of current tools and an understanding of how they
can be used”
• “The active management of online activities such as
collaboration, networking , content creation and curation in
order to “stand out from the crowd” in today’s job market”
• “an ability to respond positively to change”

5. “The new media environment can be 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 and knowledge. They need to move from
being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able.”
Wesch, M., 2011. From Knowledgeable to Knowledgeable: Building New Learning Environments for New Media
Environments | UM Events | University of Michigan.

6. Living and Working on the Web

7. Student Digital Champions
• Flo Broderick and I met at a university event
• She took Digital Marketing and CI modules, learned
interviewing skills and video editing
• Helped out in a big way at Digital Media Europe
• Masterminded student contribution to Digital
Literacies Conference
• Provided student perspective on our research into
online learning MOOCs
• Visited Italy to carry out MOOC filming in Portus
• Now in Madrid working for Telefonica Digital