Jonathan Ross celebrated his Bafta television award nomination with a message on a social networking website - but said Stephen Fry was a more deserving winner.
Netflix Inc is the latest media company to integrate with social networking website Facebook, whose huge community of young, tech-savvy users could help drive growth of the online DVD rental service’s subscriber base.
The two stars have not played a major show together since the tragic death of rapper Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes, who perished in a car crash in Honduras in 2002.
A prison officer has been sacked after an inquiry revealed his Facebook friends included 13 convicted criminals.
Salesforce’s Service Cloud dashboard. Click for larger version. Twitter customer service: It’s the hot new thing that all the kids are doing! Salesforce has added a new application to its “app exchange” so that clients who use its Service Cloud product can better wrangle Twitter for customer service purposes.
Washington — With a 140-character limit on Twitter posts, you wouldn’t think the long-winded politicians in the nation’s capital would be that interested in this new technology.
Social networking sites, e-portfolios, the value of online meetings, and the crisis of newspapers are just some of the hot topics inside this week George Siemens‘ Media Literacy Digest.
Photo credit: D’Arcy Norman
Impression management is the process through which people try to control the impressions other people form of them. (Source: Wikipedia)
Among this week fascinating pointers: How social networks impact the way you introduce yourself to other people?
Whether you are interested in how new technologies are changing our society or in the impact new media have on the educational landscape, each one of these weekly digests provides a consistent set of pointers, facts and resources to stimulate your ability to analyze, anticipate and make greater sense of the changes awaiting us.
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When your 88-year-old grandfather sends a request to be your “friend” on Facebook, you have two choices: Either confirm it, then quickly take down all those party pictures you thought were so funny, or plan on never coming home for the holidays.
Associated Press - March 21, 2009 10:34 AM ET SURFSIDE, Fla. - If you’re on Facebook, you’re too young for a new social networking site getting its start in South Florida.
The Paradox of Web 2.0 is the realization that the big transformations and changes sweeping the worlds of communication, marketing and new media, from bottom-up participation to sharing and open collaboration are light years ahead and as distant as a far away galaxy from the education and schooling worlds where we supposedly prepare and nurture our kids to become the bright minds of our future.
Photo credit: Markus Angermeier
In this second part of my presentation at theEVO 2009 Multiliteracies event, I focus on further exemplifying what learning really is by showcasing my personal experience with Seymour Papert’s Logo turtle, a fantastic tool to learn math and geometry, as well as my frustration in learning to play percussions with my own music teacher.
From these two simple stories you can see how much the diving into, the being part of, the loving of something are so essential components of the learning process. Actually, I would even venture to say that those extra factors characterize a true, deep form of learning, vastly distant from what, although normally called learning, is just rote memorization with little or no understanding.
I then explore again some of what, inspired by Stephen Downes’ own list of true critical things to learn in life, should be some of the core topics of mandatory learning curricula everywhere. It is in fact, by realizing how distant the topics we force our kids to study are from those skills and abilities that can effectively help any human to communicate, listen, be creative and move swiftly through the many perils and surprises that life has in store for us.
Here Part 2 (Part 1):
Giovani.it , the biggest Italian-speaking social networking community portal with over 2 million active members, that integrates the Nimbuzz technology into its existing site, bringing real-time web and mobile communication capabilities to members for the first time.
Kevin Mitnick is a famous computer hacker who went to federal prison, but he couldn't get Facebook to turn his account back on because the social networking site thought he was a fake.
Small crowds of protesters angered by the government’s $180 billion bailout of AIG marched in cities across the United States on Thursday, mocking bonuses paid to employees who helped push the company to the brink of collapse.
What is the Web 2.0 paradox? It is the living paradox of a society which while it learns and applies fundamental new rules of behaviour and communication thanks to rapid growth of the Internet in many business sectors, it fails yet to have enough moral maturity to consistently carry over such realizations and discoveries into the world of education and learning.
Photo credit: Markus Angermeier
Despite many of us have perfectly clear what Web 2.0 is about (participating, sharing, being humble and listening, requesting feedback to learn from our mistakes) when we go home to our kids, we just forget all about it and in the act of sending them to school we really send them back to the Middle Ages.
Why is it so difficult for us to bridge what we have clearly realized in the media, television, radio and advertising markets to the world of education? Why do we see so little effort in injecting inside our schools some of the attitudes, approaches and skills we put to use in our work?
I’ve tried to make sense of why we are in such a paradoxical situation and I realize that while business and direct revenues impact and push rapid changes in the world of business, it takes much longer time to achieve the same changes in a field that provides no direct or immediate revenue to us. Especially when the changes that our business world has discovered would strongly undermine the present educational status quo, eliminating lots of existing costs and infrastructures, as well as the market value of many exams and certifications, deeply revolutionizing the world of work and professional guilds as we know it today.
Under these conditions, and with little hope that we can rapidly change our educational system, what is the best way to prepare your children to effectively prepare them for a future we know so little about?
During a live session with Vance Stevens and other participants at the EVO 2009 Multiliteracies event, I shared some of my thoughts on what actual learning is for me and also which stuff future generations need to know to be prepared in a world where’s no more space for good grades or pre-determined questions. Inspired by many books and great readings ranging from Ivan Illich to Seymourt Papert and from Stephen Downes to George Siemens and Jay Cross, here is my own remixed vision for where our educational systems fail and for what we really need to know, that is not yet inside the official school syllabus.
In Part 2 tomorrow, I provide some real-life examples where I explore the real skills that learners should possess to face the disruptive changes in our society. Abilities that aren’t taught at school.
Here Part 1:
What is the Web 2.0 paradox? It is the living paradox of a society which while it learns and applies fundamental new rules of behaviour and communication thanks to rapid growth of the Internet in many business sectors, it fails yet to have enough moral maturity to consistently carry over such realizations and discoveries into the world of education and learning.
Photo credit: Markus Angermeier
Despite many of us have perfectly clear what Web 2.0 is about (participating, sharing, being humble and listening, requesting feedback to learn from our mistakes) when we go home to our kids, we just forget all about it and in the act of sending them to school we really send them back to the Middle Ages.
Why is it so difficult for us to bridge what we have clearly realized in the media, television, radio and advertising markets to the world of education? Why do we see so little effort in injecting inside our schools some of the attitudes, approaches and skills we put to use in our work?
I’ve tried to make sense of why we are in such a paradoxical situation and I realize that while business and direct revenues impact and push rapid changes in the world of business, it takes much longer time to achieve the same changes in a field that provides no direct or immediate revenue to us. Especially when the changes that our business world has discovered would strongly undermine the present educational status quo, eliminating lots of existing costs and infrastructures, as well as the market value of many exams and certifications, deeply revolutionizing the world of work and professional guilds as we know it today.
Under these conditions, and with little hope that we can rapidly change our educational system, we should ask ourselves: Is teaching equal to learning?
During a live session with Vance Stevens and other participants at the EVO 2009 Multiliteracies event, I shared some of my thoughts on what actual learning is for me and also which stuff future generations need to know to be prepared in a world where’s no more space for good grades or pre-determined questions. Inspired by many books and great readings ranging from Ivan Illich to Seymourt Papert and from Stephen Downes to George Siemens and Jay Cross, here is my own remixed vision for where our educational systems fail and for what we really need to know, that is not yet inside the official school syllabus.
In Part 2 tomorrow, I provide some real-life examples where I explore the real skills that learners should possess to face the disruptive changes in our society. Abilities that aren’t taught at school.
Here Part 1:
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