Agree to Disagree with Nolan Higdon

In this episode, Toria talks to Nolan Higdon about the importance
of teaching our young people to communicate effectively. Nolan
has written a book alongside Mickey Huff 'Let's Agree to
Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict
Management, and Critical Media Literacy' and in it they look at
how best we can develop this in our classrooms. Nolan explains to
Toria how fostering constructive dialogue in classrooms  can
can enable young people to develop their critical thinking and
learn how to 'Agree to Disagree'.

Nolan Higdon is a lecturer at Merrill College and the
Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz.
Higdon's areas of concentration include digital culture, news
media history, and critical media literacy. Higdon is a founding
member of the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas.
He sits on the boards of the Action Coalition for Media Education
(ACME) and Northwest Alliance For Alternative Media And
Education. His most recent publications include The Anatomy of
Fake News: A Critical News Literacy Education (2020) and The
Podcaster's Dilemma: Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of
Surveillance Capitalism (2021). He is a longtime contributor to
Project Censored's annual book, Censored. In addition, he has
been a contributor to Truthout and Counter-Punch; and a source of
expertise for numerous news outlets including The New York Times,
CNBC, and San Francisco Chronicle.





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