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Activating global citizens: Daniel Whitt at TEDxHuntsville

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Daniel Whitt
Connected Educator, Co-Director of Youth Converts Culture
@WhittMister
http://about.me/daniel.whitt
http://www.youthconvertsculture.com/

Activating global citizens shouldn't be a big deal, right? After all, our youth already know how to communicate digitally. Unfortunately there are significant roadblocks preventing this "activation" from happening, and those roadblocks are a detriment to more than just forward progress. They are pushing our youth (and our schools) backward.
Using group advocacy, "community" partnerships, positive digital content creation, and a few other tricks described in this talk, we can quickly move our society all the way to the tipping point--the point where we all willingly jump. Not a jump into an unknown abyss, but rather a jump to a place where our youth are liberated to be themselves, learn their way, and own their future.

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