Episode Synopsis "How Can Social Media Drive Kids to Become Passionate Intellectuals and Engaged Citizens?"

Cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito recently completed a three-year study on the way today\\\\\\\'s youth use social media to learn, create, socialize, and discover their passions - and now it\'s the basis for the Macarthur Foundation\'s effect to re-examine education and to create new kinds of learning.

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