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Media Literacy Resources for Classrooms

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The Ontario Curriculum (by the Ontario Ministry of Education): Maybe the best example of how to weave media literacy fundamentally into primary and secondary school curricula. Creating Media and Media Production There's a common saying within media literacy education: People need to not just be consumers but creators.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.”

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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” MOOC startups like Udacity and Coursera have also rebranded to target this particular post-secondary technical training market. LinkedIn, of course, had acquired online job training company Lynda.com last year for $1.5 These unaccredited schools argue they’re best positioned to “ close the skills gap.”

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

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Indeed, the job prospects for those with just a high school diploma but no additional schooling are pretty dismal , even for positions that once did not demand any sort of post-secondary education. You can look to Lynda.com, which was acquired by LinkedIn in 2015 for $1.5 weird that, eh?)