In an interview available online, Charles Leadbeater spoke about the use of new online apps, devices and social networks as a site for social activism. Here are some excerpts/quotes of importance for the teaching community:"One of the joys of the Internet is finding and reading something you think is wonderful that you'd never have found without it."
"...You have to hope that in 10 years, when digital technology is all-pervasive and meets both the huge need in the developing world and a body of social entrepreneurs, we will witness some flowering of social innovation to, for instance, provide education in new ways, to mobilize people to critical action in new ways, or allow poor people access to markets."
"It's all about access... Ten-year-olds are alike wherever you go: they just gobble this stuff up. I went to a school in a village three hours outside Sao Paulo, Brazil, 20 kilometers down a mud track. The parents of half of the kids in the school were illiterate, but watched the kids make videos for YouTube. It's waiting to explode, but if it arrives pre-packaged or tied up or fenced off, then you won't get that."
"You can go online now, and find really thoughtful, in-depth, considered, well-informed communities around virtually any issue. If it's your issue, there are now new ways of mobilizing knowledge that weren't there before. There are real bodies of significant knowledge on the Web that are valuable that we haven't done nearly enough with."
Read the full interview online at the Taipei Times newspaper. See:
"The untapped power of the Internet to foment social change"
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