Mary Grush, Campus Technology
Gardner Campbell, an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University and a first-generation social media researcher asks, “Where did the choices get made, especially those that we didn’t know we were making at the time?” Campbell says if we can understand that, then maybe we can make better choices moving forward. Campbell wants to give the prospect of making better choices a chance in the realm of social media. In fact, he’s challenging his students in a brand-new course this coming fall to examine what they don’t yet know about social media and suggest new strategies to help us all make better decisions in the future.
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A Q&A with Gardner Campbell
By Mary Grush
03/08/21 We ve heard a lot lately about moving the remote learning experience farther away from a training model and closer to a collaborative learning model in which students participate together in the co-creation or discovery of knowledge.
As far back as the 1960s, alongside the work of Doug Engelbart, people have dreamed about ways to augment the knowledge worker, the researcher, the scholar, the faculty, and the student in the classroom. Today, a conversation about how to do that might consider anything from a game-changing theoretical foundation of active learning and knowledge networks to a more practical discussion of online collaboration tools.