https://changingmediagroup.com/educating-for-a-chaotic-world/ Media Strategy | Web Development | Video Production Mon, 17 Oct 2016 07:31:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.12 https://changingmediagroup.com/educating-for-a-chaotic-world/#comment-15081 Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:36:40 +0000 http://changingmediagroup.com/?p=38762#comment-15081 […] have to retrain to succeed, but this nimbleness is necessary to revitalize Detroit. It also means changing the education system for youth to prepare them for innovation not […]

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]]> https://changingmediagroup.com/educating-for-a-chaotic-world/#comment-2812 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:24:00 +0000 http://changingmediagroup.com/?p=38762#comment-2812 I know that practically everything I learned about digital and social media was self-taught. People came to me and said “hey, is it possible to do this?” and my answer was usually something to the effect of “sure, don’t see why not,” and then I’d go and figure out how it worked. There’s a dangerous tendency toward focusing on “skills-training” for what’s “in demand now,” when as Robyn argues so eloquently, flexibility is key in the modern age. Which is why the ongoing effort to gut the humanities in favor of more “practical” education is so insane, and impractical. The humanities teach us how to learn. That’s the most important skill we can acquire.

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