by John Lacey on May 18, 2013
The power of the Internet is at its most magical when people think out loud. But thinking out loud is not something that comes easily to most of us. We fear we’ll be judged harshly, or that our ideas will be stolen. Sometimes projects will fail to materialise. Sometimes we will fail, and to fail openly is to fail publicly. There are all kinds of vulnerabilities there. [Read More…]
by John Lacey on May 14, 2013
“These people you tweet,” she begins. “Do you know these people?”
I hear so many variations of this theme. I read an educator (on Twitter no less) say that it was important kids learned to negotiate ‘real’ — that is face to face, geographically close — relationships before they could be expected to make sense of social media.
But actually it is a fascinating insight. [Read More…]
