College English teacher Andy Selsberg describes how he has been working vernacular, Internet-era composition assignments into his syllabus, assigning good tweets and YouTube comments alongside the traditional five-paragraph essay.
An interesting video of a panel on how essays are important in modern education and professional writing. Ties in well with our discussions on cultural consciousness and writing.
This article is referenced in our current book about what the internet is doing to our thinking. It is written by Nicholas Carr who is also the author of our next book, The Shallows. It sounds like it will be a very interesting book.
Something I mentioned to everybody in the class I led discussion during and something I'd meant to share a link to weeks ago, but something that's hyper-relevant, given the topic of today's reading and our latest title, "I live in the future & here's how it works." Enjoy!
Yet another example of deigital media and social media revolutionizing the way groups assemble, organize, sustain themselves and activate themselves. It's kind of an old story that keeps being retold, as protestors around the world continue to use social media to propel their causes, but it's relevant and apparently news worth enough to continue to make today's headlines...