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I heard a wonderful address by Prakash Nair, President of Fielding Nair International and Managing Editor of DesignShare.com. He was discussing David Bartlett’s work on the Connected School/Connected Campus. According to the 8 Rules of David Bartlett, students can educate themselves anywhere, therefore schools must do/offer something different/unique that cannot be found elsewhere. Bartlett argues that school campuses must act as the following eight things:

• The Campus as Social Anchor
• The Campus as New Social Infrastructure
• The Campus as an e-place to be
• The Campus as an ideas generator (culture of creativity)
• The Campus as Ideas harvester (trial ideas for testing creativity)
• The Campus as part of a network economy
• The Campus as builder of social capital
• The Campus as a model of a new, participatory democracy

How could communication in the classroom help achieve these goals? Should we, perhaps, use these ideas to rethink communication goals or communication pedagogy ?