Is the American education system broken? What happened to the bright minds that once brought upon new technology and innovation? We’re living in a education bubble of debt, that forces students to work in areas that they may not be suited for in order to repay their loans. The disaggregation of college:

One of the best parts of a Personal Learning Network is occasionally you find out about people doing things you had only thought about in theory. I watched a great video from David Wiley and he mentioned something called Western Governors University. This school offers no classes. Instead they offer degrees in an interesting way. They don’t care where you got the information from, they will just assess what you know in a very rigorous way. If you pass, you get the degree. Basically they are just the credentialing function of a university. (Source)

The Forrest Gump of the internet explains the need for the interaction between computer science and journalism:

Last year at NYU, a small group of programmers who called themselves Diaspora sparked the imaginations of thousands of people and journalists. Here was a band of smart young people who would build something just for the joy of it. Programming in the cause of freedom. A hugely optimistic act. It’s the motivation for what I’m talking about. But, what was missing was the contribution of a university — of experience informing, guiding, and teaching the young people how to do what they set out to do. People who had been down roads much like the one they’re traveling, and can guide them past the potholes, pirates and vigilantes, carpetbaggers and cliffs. There’s a Mr Potter or Mr Burns lurking around every corner, it seems.

In other arts, there’s a healthy respect for the knowledge accumulated by previous generations. These days, however, in programming — that respect seems to be fading. I think, if we can learn to communicate across generations, we can combine our strengths, your youth, vigor, optimism for the future — with my generation’s lessons from the trenches. And if we can remember the feeling that many of us had when we were young, that the sky is the limit, that we can be great if we just will ourselves to be great. We can have it all.

Implementing a DML initiative for the entire school is necessary:

And, here’s the thing about working with kids in schools: not all of them are going to be that excited about new approaches to learning. Even if they are excited about what you are trying to do in their classes, a bunch of kids are going to still tell you that what you are doing is "boring" and generally go out of their way to signal that they aren’t interested. Why will they do this? Because they are kids.