Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does! A few days ago my Internet Time Alliance colleague, Harold Jarche, shared this article, written by Deb Lavoy, with me: Social Business Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does, Neither Does Enterprise 2.0.
The first few paragraphs say it all! “Social Business” is not about technology, or about “corporate culture.” It is a socio-political historical shift that is bigger, broader and much more fascinating. A new perspective is changing how we think about society, politics, interpersonal relationships, science, government and business. New approaches are emerging. Khan Academy. Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011. Social Media for Learning by Jane Bozarth. "Learning practitioners would be well advised to start paying more attention to learning as it really happens – all day, as we interact with one another, as we go about the business of ex¬ecuting our job tasks or schoolwork.
" Lately in the industry there’s been a lot of tangling of terms, most of them including the word “social”: social media, social learning, social technologies, social platforms, social socials... We’ve attempted to address this at length in the new eLearning Guild Report, Social Media for Learning, released last week and available here.