Digital natives: Who teaches whom?

How to change education as the generation of digital natives arrive. Preparing them and us for the connected world.

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Title: Digital natives: Who teaches whom?

Time: Wednesday, Feb. 25, 3:30 pm – 5:15 pm

Location: Executive Center “C”

Leader: Sam Grogg, University of Miami School of Communication

Stage Setters: Nick Chiaia, President, UPI; Jody Brannon, Director, News 21; Krista Van Tassel, Marketing & Communications Director, NetImpact. And others pending confirmation from Sam.

Session Description: Every company is a media company. But everyone isn’t a journalist. We Media transforms how information flows in the connected culture and how people access, produce and assess trusted sources of news and information. It touches and impacts all professions, including business, healthcare, law, policy, and the arts. It is inclusive of impassioned advocates, as well as dispassionate information gatherers reflecting a culture of engagement, participation, inclusion and control. Where does that leave professional schools of journalism and communication? How should they transform to reflect the shifting economics of news and information and the expanding universe of producers and consumer of information?

Objective: Write the rules to re-define, re-boot or re-imagine journalism and communication education for a culture in which virtually everyone has access to the tools of media production and distribution and anyone can contribute to the global flow of information. How should universities train the next generation of communicators, journalists and story-tellers, who should they train, and what outcome should this education produce?