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Micwalker on 2009-09-10 - Tags community , building , 21st , Century , professional , development
Datruss on 2009-05-24 - Tags networking , newliteracy
Readerdiane on 2009-05-04 - Tags PLN

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I would like it very much if people working on teaching and learning projects, people studying and thinking about and implementing tools and practices, would separate the age of something from its value and attempt to make decisions based on that thing or idea or tool or practice’s value, rather than its age.

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Yes, we are in community when we blog and tweet and share and read and write and learn together. This is how I learn and sometimes how I teach. Of course the technology changes (some of) the nature and the speed of those interactions. The power of collaborative technologies is certainly “new” and, often, “good.” (Not always, though. Plenty of “bad.”) But the networking itself, social or professional or otherwise, isn’t the new bit. It’s the good bit. Rich. Rewarding. Powerful. Sustaining. Rooted in professional conversation. Really, really good.

But not new.