In today's world there is a loss of authenticity and importance of conventional education and communication. This speaks to the trend in education as a whole, because so many teachers that are being hired today are young teachers who are versed in new technology and television, and Internet use and promote what they are most comfortable with, and are losing the touch of the trade.
In this article, it speaks about how cursive is slowly becoming 'extinct'. Both kids in elementary, high school and college aged don't remember or use cursive at all, except possibly as a signature. It is viewed as 'cryptic' and so much of older generation letters and documents are written in cursive which generations soon wont be able to decipher. With the up and coming new technology they are ignoring the importance of older communication and artistic expression through personal writing.
In society we see education in the news everyday failings of education to inspire students and promote higher education and the battle that schools have to meet old, but much higher standards of education globally. I think that higher politicians need to make a stronger stand on the importance of more conventional communication and education. Any thoughts?
Social media activist, Rami Nakhle is a wanted Syrian cyber activist. In this article, Nakhle expresses how putting his life in danger to report through new media outlets such as Facebook and Youtube is how the revolution in Syria will make a difference He desribes how it will be a long haul because they are learning new tools everyday but that Abbad is using old tools and will not be successful in the long run that way.
Nakhle speaks about learning from the activists in Egypt and Tunisia about their failures and successes so in Syria they can be more successful with their revolution. Only just a couple months ago, we saw Egypt using Internet as their means to protest, and here Nahkle is trying to use these means to further the success of their revolt. He says, "We are playing two roles: first, to spread the news, then to influence the street. We are not leading at all, but we're trying to influence," he says....and he also explains in the article his surprise by the mass of youth supporting him and following his lead to use media outlet. Just seeing the use of media only just a couple months ago, and now and how much further it is progressing, and how much more, the people are depending on it shows how influential new media is. April 21st.
On April 14th NPR covered a three part story about Piracy in Somalia. The world sees these areas as free for all. In this article it speaks about Somlialand, part of Somalia which is one of few areas that are trying to establish a credible government.
Here, media has depicted piracy in part 1 as a free for all and explains the audacity of the pirates to try and legitimize their actions, and interviews them etc... However, media is now starting to cover the little people as well.
In this article they are showing a feel good story about the civilians that are trying to capture the pirates themselves and the civilians acting as policeman. Piracy effects the economics of the world, because anyone who has ships has to ensure more, and the ransoms, and ships now need to pay for security on board but yet the media is finding it equally important to cover and report the feel good stories. Media in in constant battle with reporting the news and the feel-good stories about what people want to hear and this three part report is a direct reflection on knowing what the people want to hear and therefore reporting it.
I was reading about the different Healthcare plans hoping to be put into action and I found the slants of different media outlets interesting. NPR was anti the republican GOP budget plan and there is a clip of senator from Arizona passionately talking about how he thinks that the rationing that is going to be involved in this is going to affect what America believes is freedom and the ability to get help when needed- he even quoted a doctor who writes for the wall street journal which i thought was a bold move because I feel the Wall-street Journal is most well respected from the general public not necessarily the extremists or polarized like we spoke about it class from either side.
On the other side Fox News and then also Glenn Beck who expanded on what they think is a great budget plan. Ryan's focus on cutting down on spending that isn't necessary but still keeping up with everything that is needed is the focus. He was saying that there needs to be cuts somewhere and has a better agenda than Obama.
I think that there is something that needs to be done and it is interesting to see the pros and cons of both budget plans and how the media perceives them.
