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In her post entitled Frustrating, life enhancing learning, educator and author Lisa Durff shares the frustrations and ultimate elations brought about as one embarks upon the attainment of new skills, knowledge, and levels of understanding. I’ve only just met Durff, but she has already left an indelible impression on me as an educator who is willing to stretch her boundaries and risk being frustrated or uncomfortable in an effort to enhance the lives of her students. I’m still pretty new to the concept of Web 2.0 and the use of social participative media in education – a concept I picked up by visiting Ewan McIntosh’s blog postings. Of particular interest is a recent post in which he explains the rapid rate at which blogging is catching on among Scottish educators – a pace that is fast out pacing the same trend among corporate/business entities. Some serious lifelong learning/growth happening there!Durff explained to me that one’s “age” in the Web 2.0 participation culture is calculated from the moment at which you first became aware of its existence. If so, that puts me at about three weeks old. Luckily, with the help of a burgeoning social network of savvy educators and other lifelong learners, I will become older and hopefully wiser in the use of technologies like blogging, podcasting, and all other things related to what the folks over at Connecting the Dots describe as the Rise of the Participation Culture.
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Kevin, well, welcome aboard! Not sure what my age is– Tim O’reilly says the term is 3+ years old; in my book, I’ve been building toward it for something over seven.
In that time, the only thing I’ve learned is that I’ll need some Tom Cruise MI immersion sensor technology to swim through the changes. Not sure that’ll arrive soon enough, though.
Before you get too hyped, consider, though, that analysts pre-WWW assured us that we had already moved from Document Centered communication to Object-centered communication; and that we were almost to Concept-centered communication. Well, to me, here in 2007, that remains elusive.
But, we try. See my take on the future at openhistoryproject.org
Good teaching!
Ed
Ed, thanks for your comments! I can see where it’s easy to get caught up in the tools and lose site of the mission – which in our case is education. Will check out openhistoryproject.org. Stop by often, as I always appreciate the feedback!
Best – kms