Students as Producers, Not Consumers?

This paper reflects on lessons learned about contemporary teaching at two very different universities located in Mauritius and South Africa. Thinking with digital capabilities as a crucial dimension of transformation, it traces the evolution series commitments to pedagogy first written up Conversation article 2017, which emphasised need for undergraduate students actively contribute global discourses through both academic non-academic knowledge production. insights gained assignments based production, included social media interactions, writing practice contributions an ongoing project entitled Archive Kindness. These call development new curricula-based interventions pertaining capabilities. The elaborates upon these literacies light Sushona Zuboff’s work paradigm surveillance capitalism, expanding this explore its implications south. It develops notion “digital capabilities” missing component transformational discourse practice, arguing that, without conscious capabilities, ontological transformation will be critically stymied.