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There is so much we need to reconsider in the process of education today. I wonder where we went wrong actually. As you look around you there are so many aspects of our lives that speak to education or the lack of it. -organizational communication -visual ads -wording in many contexts -look of things like [...]
TED-Ed this is cool.
TED has an incredible reach and for a long time I have been wondering how to get TED content into the classroom. Not that TED videos aren’t interesting and enlightening but they could be even more powerful if they were specifically directed to students in a way that meshed with curriculum. That day has arrived! [...]
How to think about thinking.
One of my favorite resources is the Duarte website and blog. And pretty much every time I read something on the Duarte blog I have a new door opened! This week I was introduced to Dan Roam, how did I miss him is what I am wondering? Dan is all about the thought process. What [...]
A Must Watch
Why go to school? What is a teacher? Public education? Smart? Not? Economics vs intellectual? I am moving to a new school in September to help create the UAE’s leading mass communication program. I say leading because if we are going to just do what is typical today there would be no point in moving [...]
Innovation in Everything!
I think, I know that we all need to be thinking about innovation in everything we do. Of course we don’t or we like to say we are not innovative. The biggest failure today in pretty much every industry is failing to see the ability to innovate what we do. And education is top on [...]
Communication Outside the Box
Too often when we think of communication we get caught in our our known and accepted reality, the reality trap. Communication can and does take many forms. The ability to harness a variety of forms of communication through the creative process is something we are not doing so well in our education systems. Don’t get [...]
The More the Better.
Maybe just maybe the advertising industry has something to share with schools. In the past advertisers have liked to believe that you want to avoid consumer confusion by keeping messaged clear and single media based. Sure there may be messages across media but the logic has been that different screens being used simultaneously in multimedia [...]
Cannes and Creativity School
OK I want to be part of this! I would like to go for a starter! The Cannes Creative Academy. Now take a look at what it is all about. Look at what the students are put through. The learning programme Students follow an intensive schedule of activities during the Festival week, under the leadership [...]
Mobile Bonanza?
Have you seen this headline? Worldwide mobile advertising revenue forecast to reach $3.3 billion in 2011 The numbers are pretty amazing and if they are anywhere near target wow! My question goes back to education. Are our business schools, IT Colleges and Communication schools onto this idea? Worldwide mobile advertising revenue is forecast to reach [...]
What is convergent journalism?
Are we there yet? What is convergent journalism and is anyone really teaching it? Sure there is a lot of talk but is there a lot of actual application? And then there is the whole issue of whether convergent journalism simply further blurs the PR/journalism line altogether. Here is a good place to start the conversation, a [...]
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