Share Paper: From dull work in locked drawers to enthusiastic open knowledge: rethinking essays as podcasts

  1. Owen Kelly, Arcada university of applied science, Finland
Tuesday, June 26 3:30-3:50 PM De Dam 1

Abstract: Students from Gen Z have grown up in a digital environment that enables them to publish and communicate aspects of themselves publicly. They are geared to public discourse even though that discourse may contain more noise than signal. We have found that this has led many of our students to resent "classroom activities" that produce essays or papers that get marked and then filed or thrown away. We therefore began an experiment with an elective course that previously took the form of a book exam, in which students read a text and then produce an analysis or reflection on it. ...