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Teachers should appreciate this diversity and work within it. For example, the variety of style means that the teacher should try to understand the particular ways a given writer writes. Vocabulary, themes, and style are intensely personal.
Jr., Richard R. Melick, Shera Melick • Teaching That Transforms
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
It’s a truth on which all film grammar is based.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Papert saw that Jean Piaget, his old mentor, had got it wrong. As children grew up, they did not move from physical learning through imaginary learning and on to formal or rational learning, leaving the earlier modes behind as they ‘outgrew’ them. On the contrary, imagining and reasoning added to observing and experimenting, making practical learni
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“Yego’s rise was enabled by YouTube. Yet since its founding, popular consensus has been that the video service is making people dumber. Indeed, modern video media may shorten attention spans and distract from longer-form means of communication, such as written articles or books. But critically overlooked is its unlocking a form of mass-scale tacit... See more
YouTube: The Learning Machine
hypothesis” rather than as a textual property.
Henry Jenkins • Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
genre study might productively shift its focus away from properties of fictional narratives and onto the “strategies that readers use to process texts,” seeing genres as “bundles of operations,” conventions, and expectations
Henry Jenkins • Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
genre might productively be understood as a “