Colleagues,

I am intrigued by the last sentence of a May 16, 2008 article in the  
Economist entitled "From literacy to digiracy"

Teachers must recognise that our pedagogical tools are inconsistent  
with the skills needed
to survive in a world where people are always connected to everyone  
and everything. In such a world,
learning to think for oneself could well be more important than  
simply learning to read and write.

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11392128

Do we have tools for adult learners, for example media literacy  
curricula, to enable thinking for onself in a world where  
increasingly information comes from the (e)mergingmultimedia of  
mobilephone/TV/Web/blog/wiki/podcast/social networking Web spaces/ 
Electronic Newspaper/Twitter/Jott?

How do we help adult learners and ourselves sort the wheat from the  
chaff?

David J. Rosen
djrosen at comcast.net



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