The Mother Corp hosted a Demystifying McLuhan Mashup Challenge that yielded some great submissions. The contest was in 2 parts: an HTML5 powered audio ‘soundboard’ puzzle and the mashup challenge. The un-geolocked (c’mon CBC – can’t we figure out a way to share nicely?) grand prize winner and runner up are below.
Communicating in the Global Village
“The city itself outside the classroom now has all the answers, and the classroom no longer has anything comparable to the answers that are outside the classroom … I think what is needed is that the schools use their space and their time for questions and dialogue, rather than just feeding out answers and just specialist data.”