ABSTRACT
Julian Tyson decided to write an article for The Conversation, a site for which articles exclusively by professors and researchers, are written for the general public. The article "reached more readers than the scholar had in all the preceding decades of work". The authors’ work is relevant for students, parents, and other family members. A reference site deserving special attention is one to which educators often turn up their noses: Wikipedia. Yet this collaboratively-maintained online encyclopedia ranks the sixth most widely used website in the world. The youngest recipient ever of the Nobel Prize, Malala Yousafzai, is known for her crusade for universal education and for being shot in the face by the Taliban at age 15 in response to her activism. Blogs offer freedom to share unconventional perspectives and provide great writing practice. Most newspapers and news sites have their own in-house journalists, but education experts frequently write opinion pieces for these news outlets.
