Social Media - What’s the Impact
We’ve been talking all month about Web 2.0 - but we haven’t talked all that much about social media. Gayle is out in Vegas right now, speaking at Tech Knowledge (go Gayle!). During the Keynote, she saw some videos she thought we’d like, so she used her new Droid to send links. I like them so much I wanted to share them with you.
I’ll bet some of you are still unconvinced that this technology is here to stay. The facts in this video support the idea that this social media thing is a revolution in the way we communicate, not just an incremental adjustment.
I liked this video enough to send it to my husband via e-mail – and also to post it to my facebook page, where a friend posted back this link to an article about how social media is being used.
But what about the brain rules? After all, we know that humans can’t multitask, so when we hear about high school students who are on the computer and listening to music and watching TV while they do their homework, it’s natural to think they simply aren’t paying attention to anything. This video talks (among other things) about the possibility that they are, instead, rewiring their brains to be able to switch between tasks more quickly.
What do you think – is this Social Media thing a fad, or a revolution?
Tags: social learning, Social Media, trends
January 28th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
Have you know more about Web 2.0? can you share me a list of web 2.0? Any way thanks for your sharing.
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
We have a couple of resources we can share with you. We published a white paper on the uses of Web 2.0 in learning. It’s a bit dated now since it was published in late 2008, but it’s still got some great stuff in it.
We also recently did a presentation (December 2009) called “Learning 2.0,” which is a nice update to the paper.
Both these items should be available via the News section of our website within a week as I’ve just asked the webmaster to post them.
March 15th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Thanks for this post, especially the first video and Harvard research article. Very useful!
Kris Putnam-Walkerly
Putnam Community Investment Consulting &
Philanthropy411 Blog