There is no There There on the Internet
I am at the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC, and as the many great panels and conversations unfold, I realized that I needed to post some of my recent conversations around social networking into the public sphere. As more and more of us tap into destination sites like FaceBook,...
Beyond Schools: A Foundation for Education in the 21st Century
In late 2006, I had the pleasure of drafting an article on the future of education for the Texas Lyceum. At the Lyceum’s fall conference, “Harnessing the Lightening: Economic Growth Opportunities for Texas,” the fall journal presented a series of articles pertinent to this topic, including mine on education....
Networked Content, Networked Communities, Empowered People
This past Friday, I had the pleasure of being a guest lecturer for a Digital Media class in the Department of Advertising at the University of Texas at Austin. The class is deep into the semester and about to begin their semester project, fusing Web 2.0 and social networks....
Beyond Schools: A New Foundation for Education in the 21st Century
Originally published in the Texas Lyceum Journal during their 21st Public Conference in November 2006, “Harnessing the Lightning: Economic Growth Opportunities for Texas,” this article not only addresses a different way of thinking about education but has many early seeds of what has evolved into CLOUD’s vision for the future...