Brain training: radically re-thinking education for a digital era

We respond to scenes of natural stillness

As the new school year dawns, and I ponder how to update my curriculum for the introductory class on mass media that I teach at Michigan State, I have been struck by the idea that we need to have a frank discussion about rewiring young people’s brains.

What? Come [...]

Huffpo launches College - is it a beat, a newspaper, a magazine?

News about College from Huffington Post

Arianna Huffington has launched a new section called “College” on the Huffington Post website, no doubt capitalizing on all those college journalism students eager for online clips. The lively sub-site offers news from campuses nationwide, reflecting the reality that serving communities can mean communities of interest and not just [...]

The online world allows artists to create vooks - books with video

The opportunity to combine video with text online has created the “vook.” As the Vook website explains:

A vook is a new innovation in reading that blends a well-written book, high-quality video and the power of the Internet into a single, complete story.

For Valentine’s Day, the site is featuring Love-Love-Love – Shakespeare in the City.” YouTube [...]

New models: Collaboration, not competition, at the local level

If these two young online editors are the future face of journalism, collaboration, not competition, could become the model for local [...]

The new digital landscape: I saw the news today, oh boy

The MSU logo story shows that news organizations often play catchup to the digital world – and Facebook [...]