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What starts out as social networking is evolving into social production.

Social media has the potential to revolutionize our model of learning by transforming individual students from information silos into smart nodes within a dynamic and interdependent learning network. By serving as the connective tissue of a learning environment — whether it’s a class, school or community organized around common interests — social media can enhance student communication, collaboration and problem solving by aggregating perspectives. Through the process of sharing our perspectives we can get closer to seeing the whole picture. With a more comprehensive picture we improve our ability to innovate and problem solve.

A decade ago there was somewhere between 150 to 250 million gamers.  Today that number has jumped to between 1 to 1.2 billion gamers.  A lot of this growth has to do with the growth of gaming on mobile devices and in social networks.  A new infographic from Facebook video chat app Rounds and Column Five Media explores this phenomenon—the evolution of social gaming.