Contents

Rumors/Editorials

A New Kind of Mind: What’s to Educate? (D. de Kerckhove / E. McLuhan)

Education Overload. McLuhan and the Quest for New Patterns in the Era of Total Surround (M. Ciastellardi)

Messages/Papers

A Historical View of Education from the Perspective of Marshall McLuhan and Media Ecology (A. Kuskis, R. K. Logan)

Educational Reform and the Formalization of the Field of Media Ecology (L. Strate)

Education as a Dying and Outdated System? Media Literacies, Networks, and Social Behavior: toward a New Learning Potential (M. Pireddu)

INTERTEXT: Why CNN and Fox Wrongly Reported US Supreme Court Health Care Ruling: A McLuhanesque Analysis (P. Levinson)

Shaping Perception and Cognition: McLuhan’s Grammatical Study of Media (I. Machado)

Project 69: Retrieving the ‘Spirit’ of McLuhan’s Pedagogic Enterprise (A. Chrystall)

The Echoes of McLuhan: Media Ecology, Semiotics and Interfaces (Carlos A. Scolari)

E-learning. A New Environment for Engagement (R. K. Logan, M. Olesen)

Second Orality/From Conferences

Why Johnny and Janey Can’t Read, and Why Mr. and Ms. Smith Can’t Teach: The Challenge of Education in a Tumultuous Time (Mark Federman)

Waking up Narcissus (Jenna Sunkenberg)

On Air/Interviews

Eye and Ear: Musings on Media Ecology (Eric McLuhan and Peter Zhang)

Call for Cover Design

Education Overload: Call for Cover Design (Cristina Miranda de Almeida)

Probes/Discussions