Knowledge for the People, By the People

• Going off of my last blog, I like the idea of having an open forum that allows the free exchange of education. I dream of hosting lectures that are open to the public like Stuart Hall did in Birmingham in the 1960’s. My roommate asked me yesterday if I enjoyed teaching college students and why. I told her I did because I enjoyed teaching but also learning from others. With younger children, teachers are often feeding information to the classroom and the return of that information is limited because of their cognitive abilities. I think that open/discussion forums allow for different perspectives and often unheard points of view. Though in-person forums allow for people with access to transportation to attend, social media allows for those with access to technology to “attend”. The Konsti-Laakso (2017) article reminded of the Dennen, Rutledge, Bagdy, Rowlett, Burnick & Joyce (2017) article from last week. There is so much potential for people to learn from each other through social media platforms, even if they do not consider it or are not aware that they are learning. In my opinion, the C2C relationship is the most important of the three described by Konsti-Laakso (2017) as I think people learn best when they have an active role in their education. I find it interesting that the G2C was talked about without mention of the impact of social media at the hands of our current administration. From what I observe, without looking for support in research, this administration has been the most active on social media platforms, namely Twitter.