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Integrating Technology and Social Media into Curricula

Poster - SITE 180 ID: 56293
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    Caroline Akhras
    Notre Dame University

Abstract: Educators have new possibilities with information technology. Modern educators, who are generational cohorts, have the potential to be technology leaders in their classroom. Nexters and Millennials tend to live online connected to users 24/7. Information Technology and social media in particular plays a major role in shaping how learners structure their day and structure their future. Researchers hold that learners today tend to be diversified and collaborative. Moreover, research studies hold that bright and engaged educators are taking multiple steps to connect to learners. Today, however, I hypothesize that educators have to take a big leap forward and use knowledge management constructively. I hypothesize that educators need to connect to learners’ language, culture, and lifestyle. Educators have to build their curricula and use it interactively as they teach learners every day in carefully planned and orchestrated teaching sessions. Well-planned curriculum centers on human capital found in intellectual capital vested in higher education institutions. Modern curricula today needs to integrate multiple factors key among which are learners’ language, culture, and lifestyle as these factors, especially for learners targeting a future in the field of business, are primary. Integrating technology in established educational organizations requires an exceptional type of educator.

Presider: Scott Mavers, University of North Texas

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