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I’m currently working on a Digital Literacies project, for which Doug is the manager… great to see such a good TEDX talk (and he’s also a fun person to chat to at conference dinners!):
Find more information here. I’ve wanted to go to a TED talk for a long time… this is my opportunity!
A talk of interest to me on a variety of levels, not least that he’s quoting information from my PhD thesis (not that he, nor anyone else, tends to know that 
!) in discussing ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ – and of course he’s talking about social media.
Love this diagram of our engagement with social media:
Really interesting debate, and provides thoughts about how to influence education – see minute 7.30 onwards. “School is a game, it’s just not a terribly well-designed game”. Why do we have a game in which you can lose? Why can you not gain experience points and move up from a B to an A!
I love infographics, and am always looking out for great visual ways to represent information (can’t always do it myself, but can appreciate a good one by someone else) – and love this TED Talk, and particularly salient for those discussions re: the power of the media, see from about minute 3, an infographic of fears, essentially propagated by the media! Minute 5, less fear after 9/11. Get to just before 11 minutes, and the term “statistics, statistics, damn lies & statistics” comes to mind, as you re-contextualise the information in different visual forms.
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