Friday, April 29, 2016

Qualified for the 21st Century?

This short piece from Clay Shirky is from around five years back but I don't see that it's theme has been picked up widely yet within the education sector. Perhaps I am wrong about that and I would love to hear from people who are doing something with this concept in education at the secondary, tertiary or even primary levels.

Its runs for about 5 minutes and he makes the key point right at the end, which is that;

Being really effective at triggering a large group response to a problem, that is loosely but successfully coordinated via social media, is a key 21st century skill.




"The individual power goes down to that one person or small group of people that can offer the plausible promise in a way that gets people not to just be aware that it's possible, but excited about it."

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