Pull: How Technology is Changing the Conversation
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Michael Furdyk: Open Education: Future-friendly schools
Michael Furdyk's vision of the future is what he calls the porous classroom - where the world can flow in to give students access to a diversity of ideas, resources and people. Beyond providing context to curriculum, Furdyk believes technology can build empathy by connecting students with their global peers and by facilitating conversations about current issues and shared concerns -- conflicts on the ground, social issues and environment. And for teachers, the "future-friendly school" model...
Related topics : social media issues in schools / using social media
Henry Jenkins: How social media is influencing political agendas
Social media is giving people another way to express their political opinions is and transforming the way we are governed. Call it Democracy 2.0. Henry Jenkins, a professor of communication, journalism and cinematic Arts at USC, describes the shift that is taking place in how politics are conducted as people taking media into their own hands, remixing and re-circulating words, images and videos to put the spotlight on elected officials and reshape political agendas.
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Related topics : social media effect on politics
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