Designing a Convergent Media Space

If you could dream big and design the ultimate learning/lab space to transform the way we think and do communication today what would it look like? The problem, and there is a problem, is that the space needs to function as a classroom, lecture hall, studio, think tank, recording facility, technology incubator, and new convergent [...]

Do and be International Baccalaureate (IB)

Don’t get me wrong I think that the idea behind an IB education is grand. Hey my own children have gone through an IB program at the PYP level! In fact last night at Uptown School the grade 5s did a fantastic Exhibition with acting, dancing and the whole 9 yards to really demonstrate what [...]

To be young and foolish!

I often ask myself if it was a perfect world how would I build a team to actually make change happen! And I keep coming back to the idea of being young and foolish! The people who we charge with making change, on the whole, are old, tired, jaded and pretty much worn out as [...]

The power of youth!

The single greatest problem today is not listening to our youth! Why is that an issue? We professors, we bureaucrats, we parents, we …. are truly bankrupt of creative ideas. What we do have is a means to implement ideas but what we lack are ideas, new innovative,creative ideas. Look at Greece! How do they [...]

Journalists need retraining, sort of!

Today more than ever journalists need to be retrained on how to connect their stories to their multiple audiences. The problem faced by journalists today is very simply that their occupation is transforming and they do not know how to transform along with it. When we academics talk about the changes taking place to journalism [...]

problem with education is in plain sight!

I had an opportunity to speak with some people who really have some strong feelings on education. We did 2 hours last night on Nightline and it really got me thinking. I think the problem with our schools, with few exceptions, is the fact that we take our best teachers and promote them to administration. [...]

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