Agree to Disagree with Nolan Higdon
10/13/22 • 29 min
In this episode, Toria talks to Nolan Higdon about the importance of teaching our young people to communicate effectively. Nolan has written a book alongside Mickey Huff 'Let's Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy' and in it they look at how best we can develop this in our classrooms. Nolan explains to Toria how fostering constructive dialogue in classrooms can can enable young people to develop their critical thinking and learn how to 'Agree to Disagree'.
Nolan Higdon is a lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz. Higdon's areas of concentration include digital culture, news media history, and critical media literacy. Higdon is a founding member of the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas. He sits on the boards of the Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME) and Northwest Alliance For Alternative Media And Education. His most recent publications include The Anatomy of Fake News: A Critical News Literacy Education (2020) and The Podcaster's Dilemma: Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism (2021). He is a longtime contributor to Project Censored's annual book, Censored. In addition, he has been a contributor to Truthout and Counter-Punch; and a source of expertise for numerous news outlets including The New York Times, CNBC, and San Francisco Chronicle.
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In this episode, Toria talks to Nolan Higdon about the importance of teaching our young people to communicate effectively. Nolan has written a book alongside Mickey Huff 'Let's Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy' and in it they look at how best we can develop this in our classrooms. Nolan explains to Toria how fostering constructive dialogue in classrooms can can enable young people to develop their critical thinking and learn how to 'Agree to Disagree'.
Nolan Higdon is a lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz. Higdon's areas of concentration include digital culture, news media history, and critical media literacy. Higdon is a founding member of the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas. He sits on the boards of the Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME) and Northwest Alliance For Alternative Media And Education. His most recent publications include The Anatomy of Fake News: A Critical News Literacy Education (2020) and The Podcaster's Dilemma: Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism (2021). He is a longtime contributor to Project Censored's annual book, Censored. In addition, he has been a contributor to Truthout and Counter-Punch; and a source of expertise for numerous news outlets including The New York Times, CNBC, and San Francisco Chronicle.
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If you would like to find out more about Tiny Voice Talks Coaching with Toria then email her on [email protected]
If you would like a copy of the Tiny Voices Talk book with 30% off go to www.crownhouse.co.uk or www.independentthinkingpress.com and use the code TINY30.
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