They were titles like "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Paulo Freire, which argues that students are co-creators of knowledge, and "Occupied America: A History of Chicanos" by Rodolfo Acuña, which discusses the role of race and class divisions in relations between Anglos and Mexicans in the American Southwest.
A major change in using Web2.0 technologies is that the learner participates by becoming a co-creator of knowledge.
This has the students consuming knowledge and not using the full potential of the mobile devices to have students become producers, collaborators, and creators of knowledge.
By utilising social learning Web2.0 tools and participating in developing their own and others' knowledge, the supervision process becomes one where students and their supervisors are co-creators of knowledge rather than consumers of knowledge created by experts (Jenkins, 2006).
For example, Komlos advises that in interviewing for positions at regional campuses of state universities and liberal arts colleges, "you should let the search committee know that you are interested primarily in teaching and not in publishing," because, he says, faculty members at such institutions "have made the legitimate decision to be educators rather than creators of knowledge" (p. 101).
The vision describes future business schools as: 1. Catalysts for innovation 2. Hubs of lifelong learning 3. Co-creators of knowledge 4. Leaders on leadership 5. Enablers of global prosperity.
Escalating national concerns about student interest and retention in science and the need for science graduates to apply concepts in creative ways have renewed the urgency for college students to move beyond being simple consumers of knowledge, to being creators of knowledge (President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, 2012).
The state as creator of the knowledge economy.
Britain should become the world's leading hub for open innovation, a magnet for scientific endeavour worldwide and a creator of public knowledge.
