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?
2 comments:
I definitely blog less now that I twitter. I see it almost as a continuum. An academic piece of writing requires a certain form and commitment to exploring an idea. A blog post is absolutely less demanding, but also requires a level of completeness. Twittering on the other hand is about throwing out an idea and seeing what sticks.
Re Shirky & Bruns. I think they are on to something, but they don't have enough empirical evidence to support their suppositions - not yet at least - certainly not enough to convince the skeptics. Plus, I have come to believe schools are reactionary. The job of schools is to perpetuate hegemonic values and thus they are relegated to being the last on board when it comes to change. Indeed, they are in the midst of casual collapse.
Mass collaboration - I'm not convinced we're ready for that yet. It will only happen when market forces demand they happen. I really don't believe schooling will embrace it because it doesn't serve the economics of schooling (at least as it stands now). But I'm being a cynic.
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