James, Lilian, Lisa and Ron discuss the recent publicity over Susan Greenfield’s comments in the Daily Mail on the “dangers” of social networking and young people’s brains. Does using social networking sites lead to loneliness and isolation? Do users of Facebook and Twitter feel excluded from society. In this podcast we discuss the furore and the issues.
This is the fifteenth e-Learning Stuff Podcast, Social networking rots your brains.
Tagged with social networking eductation critique e-learning
a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with David Deubelbeiss, founder of the Ning network EFL Classroom 2.0—like my Classroom 2.0 network also in its fifth year, and with over 25,000 members. As "pioneers" of connecting educators through Ning, David and I will talk about educational social networking and social media for both teacher professional development and also for student learning. This is an early kickoff discussion as part of Connected Educator Month!
http://www.stevehargadon.com/2012/07/connecting-educators-reflecting-on-ning.html
David Deubelbeiss, B.Ed., M.Ed. (TEFL), is an educational leader in the field of Web 2.0 learning and an avid creator of instructional material. He shares his resources through his online community of thousands of teachers – EFL Classroom 2.0 He has a simple teaching philosophy of inspiring both teachers and learners, believing “when one teaches, two learn”.
In 2009, a pilot was launched by Raytheon Company to determine the value of social networking. In this session aimed at Information Architects interested in deploying social networking in organizations, Manya Kapikian, Kevin Lynch, and Michael Patterson expose 11 hard lessons learned from the pilot that apply to this relatively undefined territory.
Tagged with social media collaboration enterprise office yammer
A blog can be an online diary, a collection of links or a soapbox for a point of view you have. Social networking sites can contain comments and opinions and both can be a successful web tool in the age of social and business networking. But when does an opinion turn into defamation? And what rights do you need to clear to use on a blogging/networking site? What are the pros and cons of creating a blog/ contributing to a social network? Are you responsible for clearing your contributor’s content? Can you remain anonymous