Louder Voices and Learning Networks http://wp.me/pJQl5-76
Posted on June 25, 2011 by Michael Gurstein There is a stream of contemporary thought (with which I generally agree) which sees knowledge as being largely produced and disseminated by and through networks. That is, networks-social, technical, organizational-are seen as providing the basic framework within which knowledge activities increasingly are taking place and where knowledge workers increasingly are doing their work. This all seems really quite straightforward and even somehow commendable in that it suggests that knowledge is being disengaged from the older top-down authoritarian structures and institutions which so many have come to distrust or even despise. And of course, these networks are (or at least appear to be) immaterial and placeless-existing or taking their form and substance through invisible wires, the ether, software such as Facebook, or other seemingly virtual products, themselves the outcome of the digital age. An upcoming conference "Mobilityshifts" is as good as any as an example of this kind of thinking-asserting in a somewhat breathless way that "The future of learning will not be solely determined by digital culture but by the re-organization of power relationships and institutional protocols."... http://wp.me/pJQl5-76 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
