Tim's Blog

Hey Angela

Seeing the media tools as just that, tools, for wider conversations, collaboration and change is most definitely key.

I would see social media leading to change consisting in two things:

#1: The use of tools leading to young people accessing content, making contacts, and finding opportunities for reflective learning that benefit them as individuals in the long term (personal change).

#2: The use of tools for campaigning and lobbying for political change (from a local level such as changing the way school meals are provided for example, through to large scale change such as lowering the voting age).

Crucially - I would suggest it should be the transferable skills and the issues which impact on young people, and which in a well planned project should continue to do so over the long term - with media only as a medium within which those skills are acquired and those issues explored...