France teaches j-students to work with Web 2.0
J-students at the Institut Pratique de Journalisme (IPJ) are learning for jobs that don’t yet exist. Addressing WJEC & AMIC, School head Pascal Guenee says this means:
• Replacing old specialisations of radio, print, TV with education in sound, text and image.
• Learning about sound means interviews, recording, editing – for radio, web and podcasts.
• Same applies to images and text.
In the second year, there’s a focus on skills for Web 2.0. France has nine million content creators at “Skyblog” – who are mainly teenagers who will soon become IPJ students. With this in mind, IPJ promotes these skills:
- high digital literacy,
- multimedia story-telling ability,
- being a journalist AND a content producer,
- managing user-generated content,
- moderating online communities.
There’s also a focus on digital life long training. It includes a day a month where bloggers visit the school to meet with students, debate ethics, and upgrade their skills.
Comments
... but where is the
... but where is the journalism in all of this? All the talk is about teaching our students technology, as if the technology is journalism. The danger is by trying to adapt our teaching too much to rapidly changing technology, the skills we teach our students will be out of date before they leave university. Training journalism students for jobs that don't exist? How about training them to be journalists... let's face it, the technology isn't the difficult part.