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Designing for a Hastily Converting World

About 65% of children entering primary school today will find themselves in entirely new jobs that do not yet exist. Designing learning environments for an unknown future requires flexibility, says Rosan Bosch, creator of Learning Environments. The lifespan of the knowledge and skills acquired in school continues to shorten. Science and technology are evolving rapidly, constantly pushing employees around the world to become more adaptable and agile, yet schools still have the same layouts designed for memorization remain. The layout of the school resembles that of a prison. Instead, schools should be flexible and encourage different forms of learning. Achieving equity and relevance requires a rethink by nearly everyone involved in education. A distinctive and beautiful façade can convey the identity and belong of a building's occupants. It has little effect on the learning process. We have never demanded more from our education system than we do today, but we demand it because the ...

Georgia Southern University & the ISEP Connection

Bulletin Exckusive has been part of the ISEP network since 2005 and has since facilitated student exchanges in many parts of the world through ISEP. Georgia Southern University (GSU) is one of over 300 partner universities in this network. This week we had the pleasure of welcoming Aniruddha Mitra, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at GSU, to her TU Graz. He used the opportunity of a trip to Europe to find out about student exchange opportunities with the Graz University of Technology and made his first contact with the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Economics, represented by Professor Cecilia Poletti, coordinator of international affairs. Several possibilities have been identified as starting points for cooperation, initially with two of her TU Graz students planning to spend the next semester at her GSU.

Are Memes Important to the Russian-Ukrainian War?

The importance of social media can hardly be overstated in the struggle of global public opinion that runs parallel to the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war, with memes, in particular, playing a central role. This blog post outlines how the Ukrainian government used memes to achieve its goals, the unique advantages of memes as political tools, and the disadvantages when used concerning the current conflict. How to use Ukrainian Memes Since starting the war between Russia and Ukraine in 2022, the Ukrainian government has implemented a variety of innovative digital tactics. Ukraine forms the world's first international hacker army tasked with carrying out cyberattacks against Russia, and also launches a global crowdfunding campaign to collect donations from the digital public to fund the army have started. Most notably, Ukraine's Digital Transformation Minister has posted an open letter to the CEO of the tech company on her Twitter, urging her to withdraw from the Russian market. Man...

Bulletin Exclusive Doc Reads

 IndieWire's Eric Kohn and Free Chol Soo Lee producer Su Kim discuss how the media market limits the impulse to create documentary content, and how their work breaks boundaries. Discuss what you are aiming for Kim's career as a producer over the past decade coincided with the explosion of the documentary market, fueled by the streaming market. But even as big-event documentaries about J.Lo, Tiger King, and The Tinder Swindler have fueled interest in the shape, Kim says her trends pose more challenges for the work she's about to produce said to be producing. "They say it's the golden age of documentaries, but is it a crisis?" she said. "There's a smaller and smaller space for the kind of content I'm trying to bring to the world." LGBTQ Nation's Nic Austin talks to Leo Baker, a transgender professional skateboarder and subject of Nicola Marsh and Giovanni Reda's Stay On Board: The Leo Baker Story, about his experience being photographed...

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