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[nny]

I read a really interesting chapter on participatory skills and the way that the skills used in social media and transformative culture map onto traditional academic skills; that what we need is a way of using both to amplify each other, rather than saying This One is good and That One is bad. That comes from both directions - it's equally as important for students to realise how traditionally academic skills can improve and deepen their participatory skills, as it is for academics to realise that kids aren't just wasting their time on the internet.

Again and again and again it is the importance of critical literacy skills that are emphasised; that students must be aware and critical of the reliability of information. Nice comment about the 'shelf life' of information, that it's way more important to be able to find information and assess its validity than just to be taught facts.

I find it endlessly infuriating that the education system in this country is stuck in the bloody dark ages.

(I'm studying for an incredibly poorly outlined essay that is due on Monday. I... have no idea what direction it's going to go in, even, yet. Stressed does not even begin to describe it).

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[skygiants]

the 'shelf life' of information, that it's way more important to be able to find information and assess its validity than just to be taught facts

Ugh, yes. Education shouldn't be about 'learn this!', it should be about teaching you HOW to learn what you need to know. Googling is an extremely important life skill!