Force seven? 
Da ieri a oggi ho fatto un po' di order clipboard and I took out some notes he had accumulated.
First of all, to begin with the right spirit, a report published on Wired
in late September. The service is called
7 Essential Skills You Did not Learn in College and, with the typical rhetoric of
Wired , would like to present an academic curriculum
that fills the gaps in your education by the twentieth century the tools you need now. Let's call them "neo-liberal arts" education for highly evolved human. From my point of view, a curriculum is very flattering. Seven of these "neo-liberal arts" to be superior, but two are already covered by my courses: Writing for New Forms
(ie, "self-expression in 140 characters") was part of the Writing Workshop
recent years, while the
Remix Culture ( "Sampling, remixing and mixing") was the focus of the course on the language of the Web
I held in the spring of 2010.
What's the catch then? Simply, that arguments of this kind are in fact central to an education. Writing for the "new generation" makes sense when placed within a more general discussion of writing. Otherwise, learn the tricks writing about Twitter not take more than a couple of hours (and not very far). Similarly, the remix is \u200b\u200ban interesting topic, but within certain limits. They live, study and work very well with what little practice of "remix" that can be absorbed from the environment without the need for a dedicated training.
Of course, few take seriously the rhetoric of
Wired . However, if you wanted to do it, it would be interesting to note that the other five "arms" proposals are not so relevant. Or rather, only the first, "Literacy statistics", it certainly is - and as such should be included in all programs of school, unlike areas of mathematics (for example, I know, trigonometry) that have a good educational value but for which very few people need in everyday life. The statistic is: eye, after four operations and the ability to work with fractional numbers, is the branch of mathematics most immediately applicable to, well, everyone, including writers.
And other subjects? I do not have the skills to talk about it in detail, but I'd say are probably more that matters, life choices, or, at the opposite end of the scale, small areas on which to specialize. Maybe when you have already completed a good course that would enable it to contextualize her going even peripheral issues.
