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"An unfailing sign that someone is more showman than shaman is that his ideas are fundamentally conservative but tied to the trending and topical."
that sees learning less as a product (filling a learner with knowledge) and more of a process of continually staying current and connected (learning as a process of exploration, dialogue, and interaction).
As these learners enter higher education, they may not be content to sit and click through a series of online content pages with periodic contributions to a discussion forum.
"A variety of informal, socially-based tools comprise this space:
(a) blogs,
(b) wikis,
(c) social bookmarking sites,
(d) social networking sites (may be pure networking, or directed around an activity, 43 Things or flickr are examples),
(e) content aggregation through RSS or Atom,
(f) integrated tools, like elgg.net,
(g) podcast and video cast tools,
(h) search engines,
(i) email, and
(j) Voice over IP."
Classroom example with creating scenario for students and reflective writing is a good example of the power of literature to engage and lead to inquiry.