From Boing Boing:

These student presentations are better than anything I’ve seen from “real” news agencies and could serve as a model for the future of interactive/online journalism.

Boing Boing: Students produce the future of newsgathering

Interesting stuff from students at the college level. Could serve as great models for secondary students (or younger?), and provide some examples of what this technology stuff has to do with education, society, learning, and thinking. Convergence is a huge advantage of the medium, and what is desperately needed in the thinking of students.

Start at the News21 Initiative homepage.

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