Public Minds: Edulink Collaborations

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Public Minds Edulink Collaborations

• By Daniel Revsbeck
• IS/LS 5950 Spring 2007
• Special Topics Creative Systems
• Thinking for Innovators

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Step 1Human Activity

• Diagnosis of the problem of access to affordable
  public education platforms for prospective higher
  education students and Lifelong Learners.
• Identifying opportunities for collaborations
  involving public media and the public education
  community to address the needs.

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Step 2Fundamental Problem

• The real issue yet unresolved Media Ethics
  and the citizen consumer of information.
• Citizenship or Consumerism? That is the
  question.
• Truthiness When Faith trumps Fact. 2006 word
  of the year.

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Step 3Innovative Solution Proposal

• Personally Designed Skills Profile.
• Personally Designed Curriculums.
• Collaborations with Public Media, the Public
  Education Community and the Public Mind of the
  Citizen Consumer.

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Step 4Points of Leverage

• Opportunity to implement one of the solutions.
• Lifelong Learners, PBS, U of M PIL and CCE.