I was given the Tipping Point as a prize for finding the Afikomin this year at Passover Seder -- Thanks Libby. I put off reading it for a few months and picked it up only recently. After about a chapter or so I realized I'd quoted this book in a term paper during my senior year of college. In my defense, I had one photocopied chapter.
The cover makes the book look a little fiction'esq...But no, actually non-fiction.
Review: Awesome, awesome awesome awesome. There really isn't enough in the American Education system about Media Literacy and although this book isn't exactly Neal Postman, it will make you understand your world better - Why ideas spread, stick, etc.
One of those books you're running around reading paragraphs out loud to people, because it makes you sound so smart, like you discovered these theories yourself. Thank you Malcom Gladwell.
2 comments:
I disagree with your comment
"There's not enough media literacy in American education." My study of state standards indicates there is media literacy in American education...it's just not tested, and teachers know what it is tested, so they don't teach it.
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I think you're much more likely to encounter it at the college level - Up until that point it's all about teaching to standardized tests. I agree with you on that.
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