Robert Paterson's Weblog: Going Home - Our Reformation
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Saved by 5 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2006-09-27
- Seanfitz on 2007-05-06 - Tags futurestudies , imported delicious , philosophy
- Levjoy on 2006-10-24 - Tags blogging , imported:del.icio.us , social_software
- Mikeheth on 2006-09-27 - Tags blogging , education , future , learning
- Sridgway on 2006-03-06 - Tags blogging , socialsoftware , education
- Borismann on 2005-02-27 - Tags system:unfiled
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I was in a meeting this week with a group of “educators”. We were talking about Communities of Practice. I mentioned blogging several times in the meeting. At the meeting’s end, one of the participants approached me and said, “Every time you mention blogging I get annoyed. It is only a fad and will never affect education.”
I believe that it is not a fad. I believe that Blogging, and its wider family of Social Software tools, will not only affect education but will shake our entire society to the core. I believe that our descendants will look back at its arrival the same way that we now look back at the advent of the printing press.
I believe that Social Software is a vector a return to an old culture.
When I say old culture, I mean the culture that fits the essential nature of humans and that fits nature itself. I imagine a return to the custom of being personally authentic, to a definition of work that serves the needs of our community, and to a society where our institutions serve to enhance all life.
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on 2006-10-24 by levjoy