Kyle Mathews :: Dreams With In

1. Schools exist to prepare students to thrive in the environment where they live.
2. The environment we live in has changed significantly in the past fifty years from a mechanistic to an electronic world.

I've started reading "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man" by Marshall McLuhan and am greatly enjoying it. It's an incredibly dense read but so far, my efforts have been richly rewarded.

Great blog post that explores the advantages and disadvantages of different social media structures.

He explores when you want to follow ideas (when the community is small) or people (when the community is too big to follow everything).

He discusses the search/browse debate and concludes you need both. Different people tend toward one style or the other but both are needed for different purposes. Search is fast and takes you straight to content you're interested in. Browse, on other hand, tends to be slower but helps you understand the context and organization of the content better.

Here's a great quote from a journal article I'm reading for class. The article nails the problem with most social media / knowledge management installations in organizations.