Comments on: 23 – not a lonely number when it comes to social computing http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/05/30/23-not-a-lonely-number-when-it-comes-to-social-computing/ Conversation. Collaboration. Community. Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:35:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stephen Collins http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/05/30/23-not-a-lonely-number-when-it-comes-to-social-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-2115 Stephen Collins Wed, 30 May 2007 23:22:36 +0000 http://dev.acidlabs.org/2007/05/30/23-not-a-lonely-number-when-it-comes-to-social-computing/#comment-2115 Matthew, organisations may not, generally, be terribly good at teaching people how to learn. As you know, getting to that point is very much a part of Peter Senge's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Discipline" rel="nofollow">The Fifth Discipline</a>. If more organisations adopted his approach, the ability for lifelong learning might be enhanced. I think what 23 Things is about in this respect is that learning and adopting social computing tools is very much about being open to new learning, especially if the world of social computing is unfamiliar to you. They may not have the execution perfect, but the intent is right. To my mind, that's a highly laudable goal. Matthew, organisations may not, generally, be terribly good at teaching people how to learn. As you know, getting to that point is very much a part of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline. If more organisations adopted his approach, the ability for lifelong learning might be enhanced.

I think what 23 Things is about in this respect is that learning and adopting social computing tools is very much about being open to new learning, especially if the world of social computing is unfamiliar to you. They may not have the execution perfect, but the intent is right.

To my mind, that’s a highly laudable goal.

]]> By: magia3e http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/05/30/23-not-a-lonely-number-when-it-comes-to-social-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-2116 magia3e Wed, 30 May 2007 23:14:19 +0000 http://dev.acidlabs.org/2007/05/30/23-not-a-lonely-number-when-it-comes-to-social-computing/#comment-2116 The <strong>life-long learning thing</strong> puzzled me when I saw it on the 23 Things site. Librarians are big on this and many American policy-makers intertwine life-long learning with information literacy. I don’t think this approach works. And, unfortunately, like my post on the <a href="http://magia3e.wordpress.com/2007/05/20/information-literacy-why-the-oxford-model-works/" rel="nofollow">Oxford Model</a> suggests, there are few institutions that are good at teaching people how to learn. Doing the '23 Things' won’t teach you to learn, nor will it give people skills and abilities to know how to learn. But it is a good way to introduce people to social computing. It is fun. And hopefully it will inspire a few more people to better merge play and work online, pick up a few new, cool ways of doing stuff, and understand that the web is now more about people online than it is about computers and technology. M The life-long learning thing puzzled me when I saw it on the 23 Things site. Librarians are big on this and many American policy-makers intertwine life-long learning with information literacy. I don’t think this approach works. And, unfortunately, like my post on the Oxford Model suggests, there are few institutions that are good at teaching people how to learn.

Doing the ‘23 Things’ won’t teach you to learn, nor will it give people skills and abilities to know how to learn. But it is a good way to introduce people to social computing. It is fun. And hopefully it will inspire a few more people to better merge play and work online, pick up a few new, cool ways of doing stuff, and understand that the web is now more about people online than it is about computers and technology.

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