TED Tuesday #8 – With interest comes education [2/2]
In watching videos for this week’s TED Tuesday, a common theme arose between my selections – education as a self-organized and self-sustaining process. Both Professor Sugatra Mitra and TED Curator...
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The problem with “social media blackouts”
Foreword: While I am definitely not attempting to argue any sort of complete and total immersion in media, or the recoding of your entire life into 0s and 1s, I want to make the case for how schools...
View ArticleStrong, weak, or necessary; the value of social media connections
As soon as I read Malcolm Gladwell‘s New Yorker article “Small Change; Why the revolution will not be tweeted,” I knew a firestorm was about to be unleashed across the Internet. It wasn’t so much that...
View ArticleAre we media?
Someone once told me, “you have to know where you came from to see where you are going,” and while I don’t think that statement is completely true, it sure has been a valuable idea to reflect on...
View ArticleFacebook and Social Capital
One of my favorite things about being in school is learning names for concepts that I am interested in but don’t fully grasp. “Social capital” is the most recent of such terms, with my foray into...
View ArticleA letter to Professor Cathy Davidson
Dear Professor Davidson, In your recent HASTAC post, “Facebook’s Messages may not be the right answer but it is the right question,” you bring to light a very important issue that plagues millions of...
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What does it mean to be an educated person in the 21st century?
I am constantly looking around for research that investigates the role of technology in learning, and the recent snowfall in Seattle has allowed me to hide in my room and spend lots of time doing just...
View ArticleA Brief Reflection on Digital Dualism
Note: Cross-posted at Cyborgology It feels like every time I’m at a gathering of social researchers, within 15 minutes of being there I’ll hear the words “digital world” and “real world” being used to...
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Infatuation with Social
If you have ever watched someone learn how to play drums, you often observe three phases. The first phase, immersion, involves them learning the basic sticking patterns, developing a sense of rhythm,...
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There is no “perfect” tweet
Earlier today on Twitter, the brilliant (and comical) Faris Yakob tweeted about a piece from Marketing Chap titled “Why blueprints for the perfect tweet are perfectly absurd”. Even before reading the...
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