Latest Story

The New Normal: The Changing Communications Landscape

April 27, 2012
By
girl

The need to explore new models is the emerging theme of the most academic institutions as they grapple with the media landscape that is the new normal for the people they want to reach: students. Of a group of admissions officers and financial aid offers at a recent conference, 30% used Facebook. If you are recruiting for an institution: 96% of your target audience, people aged 18 to 35, is on social networks. The important thing, however, isn’t whether they are using Facebook or MySpace. It is that these...

Read more »

Shooting Your Kid’s Laptop Is No Solution to Media Literacy

February 19, 2012
By
2012-02-14 sq Laptop shot_art_laptop-420x0

The North Carolina dad who shot his daughter’s laptop in a YouTube video shows the critical need to teach media literacy to our kids.  You may see the dad as a hero or an idiot, the daughter as a victim or an entitled brat,...

Read more »

Dames in the Frame: Geena Davis, Actor Turned Activist

February 12, 2012
By
Dames in the Frame: Geena Davis, Actor Turned Activist

Females are depicted with waists so tiny that they could not possibly support their backs and “their spines would snap” actor Geena Davis said at a packed-out event February 7 at the Wally Allen Ballroom of the Statehouse Convention Center, Little Rock, Arkansas. Brought...

Read more »

Social Media and the 2012 Election

January 28, 2012
By
election

With the ushering in of 2012, we find ourselves at the onset of another election year. Three years have passed since the country watched President Obama being sworn into the White House. Whether you lean left or right, voted for him or not, there...

Read more »

It’s 2012 and learning is about to be revolutionized

January 16, 2012
By
It’s 2012 and learning is about to be revolutionized

In January every year, people tend to make predictions for the coming year. I don’t usually do this, but this year I believe something very strongly – that learning is on cusp of being revolutionized and although this process started well before now, 2012...

Read more »

Past articles

Archives