I myself being a recent graduate (engineer) I know how frustrating it was to learn everything on my own. I think the Indian schools and colleges, right from primary to top IIMs and IITs are very very deficient right now in teaching our country’s students about the new media.

I have seen people coming out from IIMs with MBA in journalism and not knowing what Twitter or Blogs are. Suggesting some ideas from my own personal experience – please put in yours in the comments and work together to change this!

1. What should be the right age to expose a student to new media technologies?

I think it should start from 7-8th grade itself which is the usual age when kids come in touch with computers and internet. And if they can be moulded in the right way, some percentage of them will grow up to use Twitter and Facebook in the right way and not to send ‘fraandhsip requests’ to anon chicks

2. What are we doing about teaching in B schools and journalism schools? What about the top marketing schools like MICA?

Any thoughts or personal observations here? I find the results woefully low. Even small efforts like guest lectures are not being taken.

3. Can we implement an industry / government defined course?

We will have to find interested colleges. Professors. Some survey of readiness of students to this topic. Then work together to define goals and results of the course. Its timing etc.

Amit Klein, Product Manager at Directi is doing some pretty good stuff in this regards. teaching online monitoring and marketing at NMIMS, Mumbai and ISB, Hyderabad. He’s been experimenting a lot even using Google Wave for internal collaboration.

Wat do you guys think? Can this dream be realised?

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