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Bradford Saron

The Political Power of Social Media | Foreign Affairs - 0 views

  • The event marked the first time that social media had helped force out a national leader.
  • How does the ubiquity of social media affect U.S. interests, and how should U.S. policy respond to it?
  • social media have become coordinating tools for nearly all of the world's political movements, just as most of the world's authoritarian governments (and, alarmingly, an increasing number of democratic ones) are trying to limit access to it.
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  • New media conducive to fostering participation can indeed increase the freedoms Clinton outlined, just as the printing press, the postal service, the telegraph, and the telephone did before.
  • Despite this basic truth -- that communicative freedom is good for political freedom -- the instrumental mode of Internet statecraft is still problematic.
  • THE THEATER OF COLLAPSE
  • Opinions are first transmitted by the media, and then they get echoed by friends, family members, and colleagues. It is in this second, social step that political opinions are formed. This is the step in which the Internet in general, and social media in particular, can make a difference. As with the printing press, the Internet spreads not just media consumption but media production as well -- it allows people to privately and publicly articulate and debate a welter of conflicting views.
  • This condition of shared awareness -- which is increasingly evident in all modern states -- creates what is commonly called "the dictator's dilemma" but that might more accurately be described by the phrase coined by the media theorist Briggs: "the conservative dilemma," so named because it applies not only to autocrats but also to democratic governments and to religious and business leaders. The dilemma is created by new media that increase public access to speech or assembly; with the spread of such media, whether photocopiers or Web browsers, a state accustomed to having a monopoly on public speech finds itself called to account for anomalies between its view of events and the public's. The two responses to the conservative dilemma are censorship and propaganda. But neither of these is as effective a source of control as the enforced silence of the citizens. The state will censor critics or produce propaganda as it needs to, but both of those actions have higher costs than simply not having any critics to silence or reply to in the first place. But if a government were to shut down Internet access or ban cell phones, it would risk radicalizing otherwise pro-regime citizens or harming the economy.
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    The power of being digitally social, this is an example in the political arena. This is also what Clay Shirky is talking about in a Cognitive Surplus. This is the power of people collaborating and sharing without consideration of cost, distance, time, copyright, law, etc. Do we want to teach children how to ethically participate in this type of environment? Or, just let them go without any skills or discipline?
Bradford Saron

Social Media + Learning is more than Social Learning - by Jane Hart | E-Learning Council - 1 views

  • There are two key areas where this is happening and where it is having an impact on organisational learning.Extensive use of public social media sites like YouTube, Scribd, Slideshare, Blogger, Wordpress, Wikipedia, and so on, that support the creation, sharing and commenting of content, as well as the co-creation of content, means that workers are now using similar approaches in their organisations to co-create and share their own content within their own work teams.Extensive use of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc where individuals have built a personal network of trusted friends, means that they are using similar approaches to build networks of trusted colleagues (both internally and externally), as well as power team workspaces and internal communities of practice.
  • This new approach will embrace both the use of external social media tools as well as internal tools, but what is clear these tools will need to support - as well as power - far wider approaches to learning, than has hitherto been the case. In fact as learning and working become much more closely integrated, “learning” will not be seen as a separate activity requiring separate, dedicated learning systems or platforms, but will need to be supported and enabled within the normal workflow collaboration systems.
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    Must read. 
Bradford Saron

Six Social Media Trends for 2011 - David Armano - The Conversation - Harvard Business R... - 0 views

  • It's The Integration Economy, Stupid.
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      Don Tapscott calls this Wikinomics. 
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      I find all of this fascinating and at the same time wonder what it means for those who are not connected. The conversation about social media seems like a white, middle-class one to me. Yet our society is becoming increasingly diverse and, at least in Wisconsin, poorer. What are the consequences of all of this interconnectivity on those who are not able to participate?
  • Tablet & Mobile Wars Create Ubiquitous Social Computing.
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      We've been talking about this for years, the anywhere, any time, all the time type of approach, which now is better facilitated by easy interface access. 
  • Facebook Interrupts Location-Based Networking.
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      I would argue that it transforms our conception of "local." Now, local isn't physically limited, it's digitally liberated. 
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  • Average Participants Experience Social Media Schizophrenia
  • Google Doesn't Beat Them, They Join Them.
  • Social Functionality Makes Websites Fashionable Again
Guy Leavitt

Siphoning the Fumes of Teen Culture: How to Co-opt Students' Favorite Social Media Tool... - 0 views

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    Social Media Tips
Bradford Saron

The Rules of Social Media Engagement Brian Solis - 0 views

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    This is a great resource. Thoughtful and current, Brian Solis has really been able to capture most of the pieces to the puzzle of managing social media in the work (school) place. 
Bradford Saron

10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2011 - 3 views

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    Twitter, blogs, and social bookmarking included, once people understand the basics, they will migrate to use of social media to solve a variety of problems (if you are not already). 
Bradford Saron

The social side of the internet | Pew Internet & American Life Project - 0 views

  • The internet is now deeply embedded in group and organizational life in America.
  • 80% of internet users participate in groups, compared with 56% of non-internet users. And social media users are even more likely to be active: 82% of social network users and 85% of Twitter users are group participants. 
  • 60% of all Americans said the internet has had a major impact on the ability of groups to connect with other groups.
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  • 49% of all Americans said the internet has had a major impact on the ability of groups to impact local communities.
  • 41% of these internet-using active group members say the internet has had a major impact on their ability to organize activities for their groups
  • 24% of these internet-using active group members say the internet has had a major impact on their ability to volunteer their time to groups
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    Covering the extent to which social media is integrated into almost every part of our personal and professional lives. 
Bradford Saron

Digital Literacies for Writing in Social Media | DMLcentral - 1 views

  • The best way to understand the expectations of a particular medium is to participate in that medium and identify its genre expectations as they emerge.
  • Students need to think of their online data along the dimensions of: * accessibility* searchability* persistence
  • teaching our students about the kairos of digital media, its accessibility and persistence, and the extent to which it is public and private will prepare them not only for the writing situations that they find themselves in now, but also those they will face in the future.
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  •  Digital communication eliminates this physical incompatibility between media: when all media are digital, all media are subject to the affordances of digital communication, most notably effortless copying and sharing.
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    Deeper thinking about communication in a digital age. 
Bradford Saron

December Elluminate Recap - Social Media | Connected Principals - 1 views

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    Real people, real school initiatives in social media. 
Bradford Saron

290+ Social Media Resources From 2010 - 0 views

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    A great resource to learn about social media
Guy Leavitt

How Small Businesses Are Using Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

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    How small businesses use social media
Bradford Saron

The Gap Between Social Media and Business Impact: 6 stages of social business transform... - 0 views

  • Stage 1: Planning – “Listen to Learn”
  • Stage 2: Presence – “Stake Our Claim”
  • Stage 3: Engagement – “Dialog Deepens Relationships”
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  • Stage 4: Formalized – “Organize for Scale”
  • Stage 5: Strategic – “Becoming a Social Business”
  • Stage 6: Converged – “Business is Social”
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    Stages of transformation apply to all reform. 
Bradford Saron

What Does Technoratis State of the Blogosphere Report Mean for Education Bloggers? - Th... - 1 views

  • Almost half of all content consumers surveyed by Technorati trust traditional media sources less than they did five years ago
  • Equally interesting is the fact that almost 50% of content consumers surveyed by Technorati trust the content that they’re finding on blogs—a number that rivals the 60% of content consumers who trust the content they find in print newspapers, television broadcasts and radio programming.
  • 60% of all bloggers surveyed spend between 1 and 3 hours per week working on their blogs—and the average blogger posts new content to their site 2-3 times per week.
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  • mobile blogging is becoming more and more popular. 
  • If those kinds of trends continue—or start to find their way into the edusphere—that can only mean two things: Blog content will continue to play an important role in driving conversations in all fields. My own content could be drowned out, lost in the sea of posts being published by writers who are investing more time than I am in their blogs.
  • The lines are blurring between the blogosphere and social media spaces like Facebook and Twitter:
  • Bloggers spend more time interacting in social media spaces than the average American.
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    Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. The article blends well with Clay Shirky's analysis of the death of print. This is why. 
Bradford Saron

The Fischbowl: Board of Education Social Media/Networking Discussion - 0 views

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    Advice on talking with school boards about social media. 
Dave Laehn

Social Networking In Schools: Educators Debate The Merits Of Technology In Classrooms| ... - 0 views

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    The efficacy of using social media technology in the classroom
Bradford Saron

Social Media for School Leaders « Powerful Learning Practice - 1 views

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    Lots of resources.
Bradford Saron

Writing Social Media Policies, Promote Your District - 8 views

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    Great resource for those starting this process. 
Bradford Saron

Social Media & Public Relations - 5 Reports - Online Marketing Blog - 3 views

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    Must read. 
Bradford Saron

10 things you need to know about the Fortune 100's use of social media | Articles | Main - 0 views

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    Primer on social media (marketing version)
Bradford Saron

Alan Gershenfeld: Game-Based Learning: Hype Vs. Reality - 0 views

  • Project-based learning: Games are interactive, "lean-forward," and participatory. They enable players to step into different roles (e.g. scientist, explorer, inventor, political leader), confront a problem, make meaningful choices and explore the consequences of these choices. Games can help make learning more engaging, relevant and give students real agency in ways that static textbooks simply cannot.
  • Personalized learning: Games are designed to enable players to advance at their own pace, fail in a safe and supportive environment, acquire critical knowledge just-in-time (vs. just-in-case), iterate based on feedback and use this knowledge to develop mastery. Games can help teachers manage large classes with widely divergent student capabilities and learning styles through embedded assessment and individualized, adaptive feedback.
  • 24/7 learning: Games offer a delicate mix of challenges, rewards and goals that drive motivation, time-on-task and a level of engagement that can seamlessly cross from formal to informal learning environments. Given that kids spend more time engaged with digital media than any other activity (other than sleep), games can enable an increasing portion of this out-of-school digital media time to effectively reinforce in-school learning (and vice-versa).
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  • Peer-to-peer learning: Games are increasingly social. Whether they involve guilds or teams jointly accomplishing missions, asynchronous collaboration over social networks or sourcing advice from interest-driven communities to help solve tricky challenges, games naturally drive peer-to-peer and peer-to-mentor social interactions.
  • 21st Century skill development: Games are complex. Whether it is a 5-year-old parsing a Pokemon card or a 15-year-old optimizing a city in SimCity, games can foster critical skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, systems thinking, digital media literacy, creativity and collaboration. Given that many of the jobs that will emerge in 21st century have not yet been invented, these 'portable' skills are particularly important.
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    Although some of the stats may be uncharacteristic of most of Wisconsin, this seems well presented-especially the bold points of strength for gaming. 
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