Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Trends in education trail those in media, but they also unerringly folow them. That's why this column is a stark warning for educators: "New media emerged in the vacuum left by legacy newsrooms, with creators stepping in where institutions stepped out, creating a streaming-native, culturally fluent broadcast infrastructure... If the advertising market, venture capital, and legacy institutions won't invest in truth-tellers, then communities must invest in - and support - one another." (I still hate Nieman's user-hostile web page design).

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