Intesesting article about LinkedIn and other social networks such as FaceBook, Twitter, and Google+ Not directly related to education but does speak to the role of social networks in the 21st century
"Good teaching was not defined by test results. Instead, its attributes were identified on a nine-item scale, which included student appraisals of how well the teacher organized material, used class time, explained directions, and reviewed the subject matter."
Being really smart used to mean “how much do you know,” and “how much can you memorize.” Now it’s, “how good are you at finding information and contextualizing it.”
So when we’re teaching digital literacy, it needs to be a transliterate approach. It’s not about one experience, but how all of these things interrelate.
Are we transliterate enough when we are learning and experimenting things.
Another example I can think of for transliteracy is the awareness of updating one's status messages in various places. For example, a status message on one's FB page is quite different from one's LinkedIn Profile to one's style of tweeting to one's IM status message.
Being aware of what kind of thoughts go where is an important transliterate skill to have. Thoughts?
This is evidence as to why predicting tech trends beyond 12-18 months is a fool's errand. Who could have foreseen the IPhone's rapid ascendancy? And later the IPad?
Americans are not as isolated as has been previously reported. People's use of the mobile phone and the internet is associated with larger and more diverse discussion networks.
Our survey results challenge the finding that an increasing number of Americans have no one with whom they can discuss important matters. However, our findings support existing research that suggests that the average size and diversity of core discussion networks have declined.
ownership of a mobile phone and participation in a variety of internet activities were associated with larger and more diverse core discussion networks.
Contrary to the assumption that internet use encourages social contact across vast distances, we found that many internet technologies are used as much for local contact as they are for distant communication.
Social networking services, such as Facebook, provide new opportunities for users to maintain core social networks.
Contrary to the argument that internet use limits people's participation in the local community, local institutions and local spaces, our findings show that most internet activities are associated with higher levels of local activity. However, we find some evidence that use of social networking services (e.g., Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn) substitutes for some level of neighborhood involvement.
internet use, and in particular the use of social networking services, are independently associated with higher levels of network diversity.