Rebecca MacKinnon’s at the Berkman Center right now inviting comments from those in the room and out in cyberspace on “how best do we engage a class when the goal is to [give] students a clear undestanding [between] doing journalism and doing journalism on the web.”

“How do you do that journalism in new ways, to teach yourself new tools and think innovatively and not be afraid of learning new things?”

She also mentioned that “people in news organizations are training in web 1.0 and they don’t have a clear understanding of RSS and other new media tools.” There is a disconnect between what’s happening on sites like YouTube and news organization’s websites.

“There is a demand [at news organizations] for people who are really fluent in 2.0 not just 1.0.”

The biggest disconnect is between what you can teach and what happens when you work for an organization . . . same kind of constraints, “as a journalist, how can you do creative things within those constaints”.

Comments from the room led to a sense that figuring out how students can experiment is key to teaching new media and journalism.

Both the audio and video from today’s luncheon will be available later at MediaBerkman.

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