In the article, New Opportunities for Interest Driven Arts Learning in Digital Age, Kylie Peppler explains how the rapid growth of social media/internet participation among young people has shifted popular ways of learning. While learning used to be a "push" method where teachers pushed ideas of what is important, most students now learn through a "pull" method, where they find information on the internet that interests them to grow. She describes this shift from "learning about" to "learning to be."
Peppler explains that the implications of this kind of learning. It recognizes that young people are content creators and have the ability to impact others far beyond the art classroom. They now have power, based in their creativity, to influence industry, culture and public policy. Peppler also notes that digital arts are inclusive to a wider range of socio-economic populations, which allow those who normally have not had access or voice in the arts, to be active participants in creative content creation.
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