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January 21, 2008 |  Tagged , | 1 Comment




PBS Frontline is showing GROWING UP ONLINE on television on Tuesday January 22, 2008. If you miss it you can watch it online after.

I am hoping they address teaching and education. From the press release:

At school, teachers are trying to figure out how to reach a generation that no longer reads books or newspapers. “We can’t possibly expect the learner of today to be engrossed by someone who speaks in a monotone voice with a piece of chalk in their hand,” one school principal says. “We almost have to be entertainers,” a longtime history teacher tells FRONTLINE. “If you look at the advertising world and the media world that they live in, they consume so much media. We have to cut through that cloud of information around them, cut through that media and capture their attention.”

Andy Carvin gives an overview at Learning Now


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  1.    Nick Pernisco on January 21, 2008 3:43 pm

    I had some major issues with the press release and trailer for this Frontline episode. I talk about it at my blog: http://www.understandmedia.com/blog/?p=222

    One of my main issues is that they don’t show very many minorities in the commercial. The minorities they do show are “trouble makers”.

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