Education Futures – “This is bullshit!” – Jeff Jarvis on the death of lectures

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Nora Young interviews Daniel Pink

From CBC Radio: Spark, Nora Young interviews Daniel Pink, the author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.

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New Media Literacies

New Media Literacies (NML), a research initiative based within USC’s Annenberg School for Communication, explores how we might best equip young people with the social skills and cultural competencies required to become full participants in an emergent media landscape and raise public understanding about what it means to be literate in a globally interconnected, multicultural world.

The white paper Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century (Jenkins et al., 2006) identifies the three core challenges: the participation gap, the transparency problem and the ethics challenge, and shares a provisionary list of skills needed for full engagement in today’s participatory culture. In the video below, members of the NML team share their thoughts and perspectives on the skills we call the New Media Literacies.

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