The Digital Gardener Initiative (DGI) podcast series explores how universities are addressing the challenges and opportunities of today's information and media landscapes to prepare students for complex, interconnected digital futures.
In the latest episode, Paul Cook, associate professor of English at Indiana University Kokomo, and Adam Maksl, associate professor of journalism and media at Indiana University Southeast, interview Dr. Kevin Jones.
Topics range from how to keep students productively engaged with learning in a tech-heavy world, to essential job readiness skills in the post-digital era, to the often overlooked truism that all old media (i.e., books) were once new media.
Jones also lays out some specific classroom-based strategies for engaging students with digital media and how to keep them on task even when beckoned by the siren song of digital distraction.