Hargadon: Ugh. Classic Politics Now Extends to Social Networking in Education...

Posted Thu, 03/17/2011 - 3:15pm by eileen

Great commentary from Steve Hargadon, creator of Classroom 2.0 social network for educators, on the inadvisability of top-down attempts to 'harness' social networks in education...

Mistaken ideas: 

- "that social media and personal learning networks can be directed from the top down"

- "that someone from the top needs to choose the best resources. This is closely related to, and maybe an inherent part, of seeing education as a set of outcomes rather than a process."

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..."a mistaken idea: that social media and personal learning networks can be directed from the top down."