Law Students

Link: MediaShift . Embedded at NYU::Old Thinking Permeates Major Journalism School | PBS. This post presents a more general point that highlights why "to get the Internet you have to live online." Many academics simply do not understand just how transformational the Internet has become within certain sectors--certainly for media it is HUGE. But as I often write about here, media is the tip of the proverbial iceberg--almost all industries will be impacted, especially "knowledge based industries" (e.g. law, medicine, etc)--that said, name me an industry that is not "knowledge based?"

OK, all of the above is yesterday's news, but the lesson from the link is that "getting the Internet" is more like learning to swim. You don't do that by "reading about swimming," you do that by "jumping into the water," hopefully with a safety net nearby until you learn to tread water. Most academic courses (and programs) simply do not do an effective job of this, even in the old known universe, and they are simply (mostly) not even in the game when it comes to the Internet.