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Use of Social Media and Networking is Contributing to the Attainment of Significant Educational Goals in Ways that Suggest Even More Powerful Future Impact

I realize that this is a very ‘tough gig’. The offer to fly halfway around the world to oppose this seemingly unassailable motion at this undeniably god-forsaken time to this technologically-attuned audience was too ludicrous a proposition to turn down. When the conference organizers informed me that everyone in the room would have a mobile voting device in order to instantaneously tell me how much they hated my arguments, then I was doubly determined to make it here. After all, what have I got to lose … except for my pride, my professional reputation, future book sales and chances of ever working this side of the Atlantic again?

it is astonishing how much of the recent debate around social media and education appears to be driven by belief, speculation, anecdote and personal experience rather than recourse to actual evidence.

Even when individuals are making use of social media in more ‘active’ and desirable ways, it seems to be nigh on impossible to ‘prove’ any discernible ‘contribution’ or ‘effect’ on learning.

the clear appeal of social media for many educational technologists is that these applications, tools and services correspond with wider beliefs about the value of learning that is interactive, learner-centered, social, authentic, more decentralized, plural and collaborative and so on.

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