Harvard Social Enterprise Conference 2012 | The Value Web @ Flickr.comEducation Is Social

One of the themes I have been talking about a lot over the last month or so is that education is a social activity. We cannot just throw a teacher and a bunch of students on an LMS and expect education to just happen.

Linking to Others is Good for Social Interaction

So rather than write about it here I will simply link to Mark Guzdial’s post from this morning titled “Google’s mistake: CS teacher PD must be on-line only”. I put my thoughts there in the comment section of his post.

Quick Posts are Better than No Posts

This is a quick post since I have a short day before our annual Christmas party here on campus. I really need to get back in the habit of blogging. WordPress released an eBook yesterday on “365 Days of Writing Prompts”. We shall see if I can pick up the pace in 2014 here.

Photo Credit

Image is courtesy of “The Value Web” and is release under a Creative Commons license.

Tags:

1 thought on “Education is Social”

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Your post must include a link to this post.

How does this work?
Write a response on your own website and include a link to this post. Then submit your response’s URL here. Your response may appear here after moderation. To update or remove it, edit or delete your original post and submit the same URL again. Learn more about Webmentions.