Media Trend Watching: Students and Education
Labels: Education, Market Research, Marshall McLuhan, Media Trend Watching, Viral Video"Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns, subjects and schedules."
My daughter just got her school-issued wireless notebook tablet PC. She's a 9th grader at a new high tech high school which is taking a leadership role giving students an innovative modern form of learning. No text books to take home. Learn and advance computer skills. Important world languages like Chinese and Japanese.
-Marshall McLuhan 1967
After seeing this new university-produced cultural research viral video on "a day in the life of a college student", I'm glad she's getting this great opportunity to learn.
Will other schools go more high tech? Will your own child crack open a text book or a notebook today? According to this video, it seems children will still be left behind if 19th century lecture techniques aren't removed from the classroom.
posted by Unknown @ Thursday, October 25, 2007,
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Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a question
Looking at the world of media trend watching through viral video, here's our education system on display at this weekend's Miss Teen USA 2007 pageant. Uploaded on YouTube just two days ago, it already has more than 2 million total views...and the number is quickly rising. Labels: 2007, blonde joke, Education, Lauren Caitlin Upton, Media Trend Watching, Miss Teen USA, Teens, Viral Video, YouTube
This is how South Carolina's Miss Teen USA Lauren Caitlin Upton answered her question from the judges hoping to show her "substance" beyond her beauty.
Blonde jokes can now begin.
Wa-wha-what?
click here to view directly.
posted by Unknown @ Monday, August 27, 2007,
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Media Trend Thinking: Shift Happens
Shift happens...and it's happening right now. Labels: Education, Future, Global, Learning, Media Trend Watching, Perspective, Shift Happens, Statistics, think differently, Thinking, trends
The Jointblog is an online place for media trend watching, connecting the dots of media changes. Where thoughts about the future can be discussed and reviewed as it relates to the present. Many research companies -- including Joint Communications -- regularly publish media predictions which anticipate future growth. Some of these studies generate action, some don't. The intent, though, is to generate quality thought and perspective.
Searching for trend information, we stumbled across a fantastic video presentation of various global facts and statistics which delivers that high standard. It will make you think. It will give you perspective. It will inform you in a new way. And it may serve as a catalyst for conversation and executive action.
Give it a view...and make sure you take some notes (our thanks to Glumbert.com):
posted by Unknown @ Wednesday, March 07, 2007,
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