Comments on: Wikinomics–How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

By: Tensegrities

Tensegrities — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 04:50:41 +0000

[...] More on collaboration I’ve been SO busy these past few days at AAR that I haven’t been able to read blogs, let alone write in mine. This morning I’m busy packing and figuring out how to get to the airport, but in the process of eating my morning oatmeal I read this piece found in Weblogg-ed. It’s a post based on early chapters from a new book by Don Tapscott that stresses not just the value of collaboration, but its essential quality in today’s environments. Sometimes I feel as if theological education is the last arena in which such topics are being taken seriously, but if this book is accurate (and I think it is, and that it works well with Henry Jenkins on Convergence Culture) we’d better get our act together. 06:24 AM | Comments (0) [...]

By: Jeff Utecht

Jeff Utecht — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:38:00 +0000

Nice remix. It’s powerful…now can we get school leaders to understand it?

By: Akkam’s Razor

Akkam’s Razor — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:35:37 +0000

[...] Weblogg-ed » Wikinomics–How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything “Harness the new collaboration or perish. Those who fail to grasp this will find themselves ever more isolated—cut off from the networks that are sharing, adapting, and updating knowledge to create value.” (tags: collaboration education trends web2.0 book) [...]

By: Kyle Brumbaugh

Kyle Brumbaugh — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:15:54 +0000

Nimble, agile, value added, fluid, vibrant, trust-added. All adjectives I would like to be part of the educational conversation.

What do we have now? Standards, static, testing, bureaucratic, etc.

Hoping the educational conversation and action transforms itself soon! Although, I’d like to be one of the people making the change.

By: Roger Hiles

Roger Hiles — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:16:09 +0000

Great post and looks like a great book. I agree with the idea– the spread of enabling technology will change the focus from managing scarcity to managing abundance. We probably are so early in the process that we can’t imagine where it will end, but I look forward to seeing where Tapscott thinks it’s heading.

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Instructional Technology Site Recommendations - EduTechie.com at EduTechie.com — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:52:42 +0000

[...] I can’t remember how I ended up on this blog, but I subscribed (via Google Reader) after reading his entry : Wikinomics–How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. I found it thought provoking and interesting. He obviously has a long history of writing and I even heard one of the people on EduTechTalk.com webcast mentioned above mention him in the webcast I listened to this morning. Check it out!! [...]

By: Tensegrities

Tensegrities — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:25:13 +0000

More on collaboration…

I’ve been SO busy these past few days at AAR that I haven’t been able to read blogs, let alone write in mine. This morning I’m busy packing and figuring out how to get to the airport, but in the……

By: Rob Wahl

Rob Wahl — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:09:24 +0000

Asked my son (14) if he was growing up digital. He asked why, so I told him there was this book about growing up digital. He said, “can I read it online?” I said, “only part of it”. He said, then what’s it got to do with me?

I asked him if it was true that children control much of the net. At first he didn’t want to answer, so after repeating myself he lowered his voice and admitted it was true. He said, “with TV you’re forced to watch what they want you to see”.

Rob

By: Pat Aroune

Pat Aroune — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:04:10 +0000

The influence and power that your blog is having cannot be underestimated. While reading this blog and commenting, I was on skype with China discussing your quote with a TQM consultant, and he could not agree more. The most empowering aspect of these technologies is the educational value they present, and the ability to share them with all. I also agree with the previous comment that we are in the infancy of this story.

By: Terry Elliott

Terry Elliott — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:02:39 +0000

What does this new collaborative look like and where does it exist?

Is it in synthetic, 3D worlds like WoW or Second Life” Is it in new social interactive technologies like Open Spaces? Is it in my students’ cellphone convergencies and their web x.x mashups? Or is it in a one-to-one tutorial over a paper? A poetry slam at the local coffee
shop? Or perhaps some chat where some anonymous script kiddie shows me how to create zombie bots for various and nefarious purposes?

As you might expect the quote has a certain apocalyptic whiff that appeals to me. I especially like the rhetorical world we are hurtling toward, something this way wickedly coming. But I also think it is charming that anyone could think that they are going to harness and grasp this beast’s long tail.

As a balance to this I would recommend a read from Inspector Lohmann’s radical blog of the same name. Take a good sniff of this ‘goulash-y’ post titled “The Beginning of the Last Chapter”. You can find it here: http://inspectorlohmann.blogspot.com/2006/11/our-historical-purgatory-between.html

I really enjoyed the transposing of business and educational terms. I think that we are pointing toward something beyond both. Perhaps someday the new American learning that Will is suggesting will add just as much to our gross domestic product as do music and movies. That I can say that with a straight face should be some indication of the core faith I place in those who are trying to midwife the birth of this new story.

By: Ken Leebow

Ken Leebow — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:15:18 +0000

I just quoted Don the other day. However it was from his book that I read in 1996: “Just because you don’t see it, doesn’t mean that it isn’t happening.”

I’m looking forward to this new tomb.