Steve Kinney

As educators, we push information to our students. Over the years, we have become fairly good at our craft. But so has our competition. We compete with every other medium that pushes information to our kids. That includes television.

The internet has presented an interesting opportunity for a paradigm shift. It’s — as I’m sure you’ve heard — an incredibly popular medium, but it is fundamentally different from the media that came before it: television and radio. Instead of pushing content to us, the internet requires that we pull the information ourselves. How can we change the way we think about education? How can we encourage students to pull information in ways that are instructionally sound?

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