Cindy and I have taken a couple of long trips in the car lately and I have used the time to listen to Malcom Gladwell’s book Outliers. It is the kind of book that is interesting and invites interpretation and speculation.
The book consists of a series of stories that demonstrate that the reason individuals who [...]
I have been working to create an educators portal for about a year now (Learning Aloud). It is a combination of my blog posts, a social bookmarking site focused on topics in educational technology, and most recently something I think of as an online book entitled Meaningful Learning and the Participatory Web. I originally [...]
The question of exactly what conditions must be met before online participatory experiences result in increased rather than decreased insight continues to fascinate me. I am using the opportunity presented by teaching introductory topics in social psychology to explore topics in group information gathering and processing. Groupthink and selective bias were known issues long before [...]
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Posted 06 December 2008
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I met my two Fall classes for the first time today. A total of 270 students and an impossible situation for making a personal connection with many of them. In commenting on this topic, I noted that my syllabi offer a link to this blog and suggested that I use this blog to comment on [...]
The BBC news site has an interesting article on UK children (8-17) involvement in social networking sites. 50% claim to have an online profile. A claim that 25% of those in the 8-11 range claim to have a page is made at one point. The article references a more detailed report (available via a link) [...]
Google is promoting an API that maps connections among people. Great idea. I would guess the idea is to discover others with similar interests “a few links removed”.
The problem is that the API relies on designated “people” connections – friends lists, blog rolls, etc. There are designated tags for such links, but how many people [...]
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Posted 03 February 2008
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Frontline (PBS) had an hour program entitled “Growing Up Online” that aired this evening. The program explores a wide variety of topics (cheating, social networking dangers, generational differences). You can view the program and related material at the PBS site. These resources would be quite useful in a pre-service teacher ed tech class.
I learned of [...]
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