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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

"Come for the storytelling, stay for the community." This item describes "A new business model emerging of selling bundles and what that means, getting people to come for the storytelling, for the journalism, but they stay for the community." It's funny, but this approach made me think of the article Akan folklore as a philosophical framework for education in Ghana. "It is through storytelling that African elders endeavoured to inculcate in the younger generation virtues such as good behaviour, manners, hard work, fairness and respectful submission to authority." In journalism, it may be AI that plays the role of the elder. "For many of you may be the last train in digital. We missed the social train, we missed the mobile train. Some people missed the search train. Let's not miss this train." Sure, there are risks to having AI create our stories for us, but on the other hand, it's probably better than developing our cultural values through watching the Marvel Cimematic Universe.

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