Module 2 Post 1 – Social Media & Indigenous Education

Particularly page 11 onwards, this article mentions the importance of social media and how it is “user created, user controlled, flexible, democratic, and both very transparent and very not” (Huijser, 2014, p. 11). Social media’s focus on collaboration, engagement of information sharing and having conversations is in many way in line with the Indigenous perspective (Huijser, 2014).

 

Huijser, H. (2014). Exploring the opportunities of social media to build knowledge in learner-centered Indigenous learning spaces. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Retrieved from file:///Users/rikavuong/Downloads/05huicorrectedpublishedversion.pdf

 

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