Friday, May 22, 2009

To blog or not to blog?

I'm finding now that I use Twitter, I blog less. Has anyone else found this? I don't know if it's a time or motivation issue. Or maybe it's a new literacies thing.

Other news...I showed Clay Shirky's Ted.com talk in my summer literacy class tonight. Not sure what students thought about it. I continue to think Shirky and Bruns are onto something, but maybe the connections to education are still too vague. It could be that schools are too far into the casual collapse Bruns talks about or are too defensive as institutions as Shirky suggests. Call me naive, but I still think there is potential for a significant transformation. What would it look like if everyone comes? The potential around mass collaboration in education is too exciting to pass up to me. Anyone else have thoughts on this?