Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

Soon to be on my reading list is the new book by Curtis Bonk, who teaches at Indiana University in the School of Education where he is Professor of Instructional Systems Technology. He terms his book, “The World is Open: Now WE-ALL-LEARN with Web Technology”, an education extension to Thomas Friedman’s, “The World is Flat”. [...]

Since finishing Clay Shirky’s book, “Here Comes Everybody” I’ve been trying to reconcile the notion of the traditional professional (or other) association and his thoughts. This all goes back to the comments Ewan made about Naace back in March and at the time, I was still forming a view on what he was saying.
Ewan’s question [...]

I’m presently reading Clay Shirky’s book, “Here Comes Everybody“, so I was particularly interested in Will’s interview with Clay that was scheduled for yesterday, and actually took place today. Clay’s book is about how people are organising themselves without organisations.
The video is in two parts.
Part One:

Part Two:

Will asks him some pertinent questions particularly about how [...]

Vivaty launched today and takes the concept of 3D worlds into a browser. The problem with 3D worlds like Second Life is that they are proprietary and while some are working on interoperability based on the Open Grid Protocol which would allow users to cross freely from one world to another, ultimately they need to [...]