Learning 2.0: The Power of Learning in a Networked World – part 2

Continued from Part 1 – this is a rough and ready summary of my Cisco Tech Chat on Second Life on Thursday 13 March, 2008
I speculated on the conditions that typified the ’smokestack school’: a society “…where information was scarce, where key sources of information were controlled by an elite, where teachers were seen as [...]

Learning 2.0: The Power of Learning in a Networked World – part 1

The Cisco Tech Chat that I led last week on Second Life was, for various reasons, one the tougher ‘gigs’ I have undertaken – speaking in a large auditorium in front of a thousand people is much easier that dealing with just 30 or 40 participants in Second Life! However, it was also hugely enjoyable, [...]

The World Should Make More Sense Than It Does!

Thanks to dullhunk for the pic.

“….the Semantic Web is divided between two goals, one good but unnecessary, the other audacious but doomed.
The first goal is simple: get people to use more meta-data. The Semantic Web was one of the earliest efforts to rely on the idea of XML as a common interchange format for data. [...]