The Liar’s Chair NEW TRACKS - Brisbane, AU - Rock / Country / Religious - www.myspace.com/theliarschair. The Economist Debate on Social “Networking” The Economist is doing an “Oxford-style debate” on the following proposition: “Social networking technologies will bring large [positive] changes to educational methods, in and out of the classroom” Given that MySpace and Facebook are ubiquitous, can social networking be defined as the “collective power of community to help inform perspectives that would not be unilaterally formed” or is it simply a distraction for students?
Is MySpace a Train Wreck? (Podcast Version) In a recent discussion on one of the major Ed Tech mailing lists, the discussion of the educational merits of MySpace came up.
Someone said, “I wish someone would tell me what kind of educational uses there could possibly be for a train wreck like MySpace. To me this comment as both surprising and expected.