social computing & social media

Technology is very seductive and it is easy to fall in love with it rather than viewing it dispassionately as a tool with utility for various tasks. It is really important for us to avoid getting caught up emotionally in the technology.  This is important because the technology is changing

* Growth of knowledge * Too much knowledge to keep in our heads * No more epic poetryIn our tribal past there was a need to keep knowledge in our own heads for use by the individual and for sharing with others, hence the popularity of oral learning such as epic poetry.  For

Consumption of media is now happening on the user’s own terms.  I can access what I want when it is convenient for me, and in the media format that I prefer on my preferred device.  This means that the consumer of today has a lot of personal discretion, and

Social computing has exploded and is changing the world we knew in a number of ways that impact on education.  But social computing is not so much changing the world as it is changing student’s expectations of what kind of technology they should use in their everyday life and

Bye Bye Web 2.0 In fact, I've always been uncomfortable with the term web 2.0 and it is seriously starting to annoy me now.  Thus I have decided to excise it from my vocabulary. Henceforth it shall be referred to throughout my domain as social computing