Writer Bruno Giussani’s blog LunchoverIP has an article this week here called “Don’t speak. Point!” – Three ingredients of the future of journalism. What Giussani has to say is an insightful look at the significant changes that the Internet is bringing to communication in general and journalism in particular.
The article points out confusion and discomfort that naturally are caused by change and the fact that no one can really predict where the we are going. The article is informative on what those changes are, and it is essentially optimistic. Giussani concludes with three things he predicts for the future of journalism.
I was struck when I read his three things for journalism that the same three could be said of education as it moves over the next few years through the intensifying digital transformation. Here are Giussani’s concluding paragraphs with “education” substituted for “journalism”:
What does all this say about the future of education? At least three things. First, educators will be around for a long time. Secondly, they need not fear what’s coming because it will be exciting and vastly expand their possibilities. But, thirdly, they will need to reinvent themselves as a skilled part of a crowd rather than as lecturers, to become more tolerant of ambiguity, to become fluent in both the tech innovations and the shifts in social dynamics that are driving the development of media.
There is a whole new media ecosystem growing around us. Its contours are still fuzzy, and will remain so for a long time. Its operating words will be social, hybridization, sharing, complementarity. If we do this right, the quality of learning will go up. And so will the quality of knowledge discourse. What else is education here for?
Via SmartMobs.com
