Friday, May 6, 2011

From Daniel Pink’s forward to “The New Social Learning.”

“In business terms, most people—myself included—think of Twitter, Facebook and other social media as tools for marketing. But now that I’ve read this smart and incisive book, I realize that…the deepest, most enduring impact of social media might be on learning. …Learning is a fundamentally social act…sociability has always greased the gears of learning. Our inherent drive to learn together can be facilitated through emerging technologies that extend, widen and deepen our reach.

"…for instance, this new, technology-enabled approach can supplement instruction with collaboration and co-creation and, in so doing, blur the boundary between the instruct tor and the instructed and enhance the experience of all…Once you move away from the push of information to the pull of learning you liberate creative powers in your people."

1 comment:

  1. David, I'm a Daniel Pink fan, so thanks for the review. Reading my Facebook friends, most seem to have healthy group learning experiences because they're friends and they want to learn.

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