Hacking the Classroom: Rethinking learning through social media practices
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The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education. ed. / Chris Steyaert; Timon Beyes ; Martin Parker. London/New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. p. 287-297 21.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Hacking the Classroom
T2 - Rethinking learning through social media practices
AU - Bachmann, Götz
AU - Shah, Nishant
PY - 2016/6
Y1 - 2016/6
N2 - Social media’s ubiquity is transforming contemporary education. Students inhabit classrooms with connected devices, streaming data, chatting on personal messaging and sharing information with invisible audiences. The academic curriculum is challenged not only by social media resources, but also by novel, complex practices of producing, organising, evaluating and distributing knowledge. Some have taken the emergence of these connected learning environments as questioning the very need for a physical classroom. We seek to unpack the dynamics that social media generate in academic teaching, thinking and learning without severely compromising the pedagogic impulse. Consequently, this chapter begins with a look at the rapid rise and even faster decline of massively open online courses (MOOC) with the aim of identifying some of the pitfalls for attempts to rethink higher education in the light of social media. The second part of this chapter proposes that the classroom was historically constructed with and in relationship to technologies of knowledge production, thus questioning the dissociation between the pedagogical practices and technological conditions of learning. This leads to an exploration of some of the modes of engagement in user-generated content platforms, which have potentially fruitful resonances in higher education knowledge infrastructures and pedagogy. We explore this by examining Wikipedia, then look at conditions of speech and assessment through the lens of Bulletin Board Systems, examine registers of sharing and labour through Facebook, and reflect on content curation through Twitter. The third and final part of the chapter argues that analysing and conceptualising social media can become a test bed for experimental knowledge in management education.
AB - Social media’s ubiquity is transforming contemporary education. Students inhabit classrooms with connected devices, streaming data, chatting on personal messaging and sharing information with invisible audiences. The academic curriculum is challenged not only by social media resources, but also by novel, complex practices of producing, organising, evaluating and distributing knowledge. Some have taken the emergence of these connected learning environments as questioning the very need for a physical classroom. We seek to unpack the dynamics that social media generate in academic teaching, thinking and learning without severely compromising the pedagogic impulse. Consequently, this chapter begins with a look at the rapid rise and even faster decline of massively open online courses (MOOC) with the aim of identifying some of the pitfalls for attempts to rethink higher education in the light of social media. The second part of this chapter proposes that the classroom was historically constructed with and in relationship to technologies of knowledge production, thus questioning the dissociation between the pedagogical practices and technological conditions of learning. This leads to an exploration of some of the modes of engagement in user-generated content platforms, which have potentially fruitful resonances in higher education knowledge infrastructures and pedagogy. We explore this by examining Wikipedia, then look at conditions of speech and assessment through the lens of Bulletin Board Systems, examine registers of sharing and labour through Facebook, and reflect on content curation through Twitter. The third and final part of the chapter argues that analysing and conceptualising social media can become a test bed for experimental knowledge in management education.
KW - Digital media
KW - digital culture
KW - Digital Media
KW - media studies
KW - Social media
KW - Sustainability education
KW - contemporary education
KW - Higher Education and Science Management
UR - https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315852430.ch21
U2 - 10.4324/9781315852430
DO - 10.4324/9781315852430
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 9780415727372
SP - 287
EP - 297
BT - The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education
A2 - Steyaert, Chris
A2 - Beyes , Timon
A2 - Parker, Martin
PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
CY - London/New York
ER -