Don Tapscott gets things rolling at Edge.org: The old-style lecture, with the professor standing at the podium in front of a large group of students, is still a fixture of university life on many campuses. It’s a model that is teacher-focused, one-way, one-size-fits-all and the student is isolated in the learning process. Yet the students, who [...]
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Social Media and [Reconciling] the New Two Cultures
by Brian on 04-24-2009
Thinking about where I fit into the PodCamp London event on Saturday and the social media sphere in general (or even more general than that…) Judging by the registrations planned attendance has grown from a smallish group of bloggers and podcasters — let’s be honest, geeks — to include a somewhat wider cross-section of professionals. In [...]
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If I wasn’t turning 31 in a few weeks I might be inclined to say, “Don’t trust anyone over 30.” Actually, come to think of it, don’t trust me — don’t trust anyone under 30 either — because everybody is wrong sometimes, and everything is wrong eventually. Fortunately we don’t have to trust people and [...]
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