New Media Education: The Contribution of Social Sciences to Training Teachers
The spread of digital communication technologies has led to substantial changes in individual behavior, in many newspapers and collective practices. The social sciences detect the change by analyzing the strengths and weaknesses. This paper aims at presen
- PDF / 116,133 Bytes
- 10 Pages / 439.37 x 666.142 pts Page_size
- 86 Downloads / 179 Views
Abstract The spread of digital communication technologies has led to substantial changes in individual behavior, in many newspapers and collective practices. The social sciences detect the change by analyzing the strengths and weaknesses. This paper aims at presenting the educational offer of a Master, addressed to the training of teachers experienced in teaching communication by proposing a blended methodological approach that combines the teaching laboratory with the a critical and expert use of new technologies. Keywords Media education technology Training
School
Digital competence
Information
1 New Media Education Towards a Quality School Contemporary society has imposed important changes in every fields under the influence of new technologies thus provoking and revolutionizing both the individual and the collective behaviors of social actors. “Cyber space as a virtual universe is infinitely present in quotidian life through internet connection, social networks, personal access to digital contents and wireless modality from every kind of physical context and by the proper devices” (Antonelli 2012: 36).
G. Antonelli (&) R. Di Risio G. Di Felice Dipartimento Lettere Arti Scienze Sociali, Università G. d’Annunzio, Via Dei Vestini n. 31, 66100 Chieti, Italy e-mail: [email protected] R. Di Risio e-mail: [email protected] G. Di Felice e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017 A. Maturo et al. (eds.), Recent Trends in Social Systems: Quantitative Theories and Quantitative Models, Studies in Systems, Decision and Control 66, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40585-8_37
417
418
G. Antonelli et al.
Technology has represented the engine of transformation and at the same its use has changed the universe of social relations and consumption of the people who use and manage, on demand, the varied network world, where the users are at the same time the subjects and objects of the issue. In fact as subjects they manage individually their life through friend, work, love, informative and educational relations and as objects they define their role of community, citizen and consumer in a continuous exchange between on line and offline contexts which are not separated but well integrated in daily life (Boccia Artieri 2012). Therefore it is observed an outline of various modalities of involvement which give life to what is defined by Jenkins (2007) “convergence culture” that creates new ways of using media in particular in the case of the new generations which use new technologies as instruments of social relation. We are analyzing the consequences of this change in the school and education reality where two generations get together, the students and the teachers. The first, the so called digital natives, who represent the first generation that is grown up within the technological reality, the second, the digital immigrants, who like «all the immigrants (…) have had to adapt to a new social and technological, but preserving their accent and their past» (Prensky 2001: 2). At school the p
Data Loading...
