Phones are not the problem. Context is.

A TMN® creator learning at a music festival in Barcelona. Foto by Pablo Herrera.

For years, phones have been treated as a distraction in educational environments. Classrooms ban them. Institutions police them. Schools try to keep them out.

Meanwhile, outside those classrooms, phones have become the main tool young people use to document culture, tell stories, and participate in public conversation.

The contradiction is obvious.

At Colectivo Piloto, we’ve always believed that education should respond to reality, not deny it. Tools don’t disappear because we ban them. They evolve, and learning has to evolve with them.

That’s why we’re supporting the launch of TMN®’s New Media Coverage course, a practical, short format learning experience focused on cultural and entertainment coverage using the tools young people already have in their hands.

This course is not about becoming an influencer.
It’s about learning how cultural coverage actually works today: how to prepare, gain access, create, and publish content with intention, criteria, and context.

Not simulations designed for a legacy media market that’s disappearing.
Not someday.
Not after a degree.
Now.

Projects like this align closely with Colectivo Piloto’s long standing work around media literacy, youth participation, and real world learning. They validate young people not as passive consumers, but as active participants in culture.