Stephen Downes

When I was in Grade 5 I was the editor of our class newsletter The Mad Mod Portable. Yeah, it was the 70s. I've had a soft spot for student media projects ever since. Here we have "an open educational project of Huron HS that develops language proficiency, digital skills, and critical thinking." Daniel Verdugo writes, "The theme of this edition is a reference to the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) that declares all human beings 'free and equal in dignity and rights'." Projects like this foster dangerous traits in students, like creativity, independence, and free expression. We need more like this.