interrelationship between the introduction of new social media forms and social networking, in what has been dubbed Web 2.0, and the institutions and underlying infrastructures that influence the ways in which we design for learning
incorporation of web 2.0 and social software is not only a matter of adopting new technologies, but equally concerns the interaction between, technological, pedagogical and organisational understandings of practice and knowledge.
'interface'between institutions, teachers and students in the form of the networks, the nature of shared content and the management of identity need to be carefully negotiated in adopting web 2.0 technologies and social software as part of institutional technological infrastructures.
Whereas print culture and the cloistered academy required 'slow time'and private space to foster contemplation and deliberation, the digital would seem to thrive on 'fast time', immediacy of response, and universal virtual space.
I think it's important to be looking at what technology use is emerging in schools and colleges - this is what the next generation of our university students will be used to, skilled in, and expecting at higher level.