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This video is based on the work of Sir Ken Robinson who emphasizes the importance of teaching relevant information to today's youth to further united them. A degree is not a guarantee of a future career anymore and here he discusses the economic impact of teaching relevant information and recognizing different learning styles and types of intelligence.

Long paper on the long and short term affects of file sharing on society

For decades, educators have been scrambling to find better ways to prepare students for the real world. It began with the mildly apocalyptic government report, A Nation at Risk, which warned that an outdated school system was unwittingly sabotaging America's economic superiority.

This article by Danah Boyd, of whom we've seen before, talks about how teens are switching over from Myspace to Facebook and how a persons socio-economic class shows which site they are more likely to use.