Teaching and Learning Conference 2019: ‘If you can’t beat them join them’: Using social media platforms to engage the millennial learner

This session introduces some of the teaching and learning approaches used on the BA Hons Textile Design programme to engage our digital native students. As lecturers coming from the digital immigrant age we can often find ourselves somewhat reluctant to acknowledge and embrace the positive experiences that social media and online platforms can offer our students. This talk outlines how online platforms such as YouTube Instagram and Padlet along with the use of mobile phones in the classroom can create new opportunities for knowledge transfer and peer-to-peer learning.