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Savvy High School Students Teach Us Valuable Lessons About Future of Learning

     As a former high school media teacher, a recent news story about high school journalism students in Utah and their pursuit to publish truly warmed my heart.      The backstory is about how two high school seniors, inquiring why a well-liked history teacher was dismissed from their school, were determined to find the truth regardless of how their school or administration would handle it being published in the school newspaper.      They did interviews, requested public records and soon pried open the proverbial can of worms. Initially, their story was published on the school’s student newspaper website. But after an unprecedented amount of traffic, they discovered that their story was pulled down. Ultimately, they had to publish their story outside of school on their own newly created website just for that reason. (see the full story here: http://bit.ly/HSStudentsPersevere4Truth )      And that’s what I want to examine. We truly live in a digital DIY world where we don’t depend o