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Abstract
Journalism students can no longer focus on being just writers or photographers or videographers. They must leave college with a multitude of media skills to have the greatest potential for career success. The development of the iPad and supporting apps has created a “one-stop shop” of journalistic tools that enable students to learn those skills, including note-taking devices, recording devices, research platforms, and word processing. We conducted a yearlong study of beginning journalism students utilizing one-to-one iPads to examine the impact of iPads and journalistically focused apps in a “flipped” journalism classroom environment (where video lectures are homework, and skill development and execution are done in class). Our goal was to identify how the iPad could be used to augment journalistic training and determine whether use of such technology would accelerate and enhance student learning. We found that confidence in the iPad as a journalistic tool and perceptions of journalistic ability increased, as did students’ execution of publishable-quality writing assignments. Qualitative results identified some of the challenges and benefits related to iPad use in a journalism class. Overall, we found that students did utilize the iPad and apps to more quickly create publishable-quality journalism assignments, which included effective reporting and use of multimedia and social media.
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Author Biographies
Nicole Kraft, MA, is an assistant professor (clinical) of Journalism at The Ohio State University. She spent more than 20 years as a professional journalist and is currently pursuing her doctorate in education technology at The Ohio State University. She studies how technology can be used to enhance journalism and journalistic education.
A doctoral student at UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Natalee Seely spent three years as a reporter before returning to academia to earn her master’s degree in Communication at The Ohio State University. She studies journalism and media effects, particularly in the area of online news and audience feedback.
