The unnoticed attack on freedom of thought has been fought slowly in the past. Now that a major counter-attack has been won, the silent enemy is revealed.
Howard Rheingold is not waiting for schools to change. On Now, New, Next he posted:
It’s time for social media literacy to enter mainstream education.
Learning to use online forums, be they social network services like MySpace and Facebook, blogs, or wikis is not a sexily contemporary add-on to the curriculum - it’s an essential part of [...]
Firesign Theater did a radio sketch in the late 60s that I remember well. Several hippies are talking assuring themselves and each other with the lines “I’m groovy. Are you groovy?,” “Yeah, I’m groovy.” and “We’re all groovy.”
Another man enters the scene and they start a new chorus. “He’s not groovy.” and “Hey, you’re not [...]
The Twitter Handbook is about to hit shelves. When the editors asked me to contribute a short piece on Twitter in education, I was happy to share. Here’s an excerpt:
Many teachers find that Twitter is a better online collaboration tool than wikis or blogs. Some of the reasons include:Easy access- Twitter is invisible technology. The [...]
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Mashable Social Networking News has proclaimed that Twitter has “Bounced Back!.”
I’m sure that many readers of this blog may not have realized that Twitter was falling, needed to bounce back, or for that matter, that Twitter even existed.
Twitter is a microblogging service just into it’s second year on the net. It [...]
@kjarret on Twitter is a EduTech rock star. Great guy. Last weekend he was at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) presenting and speaking. At the awards dinner, they had a special recognition for all the good he did for the conference. When it was time for him to go up to receive the award [...]
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