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From the “Building the Compelling Case Department” comes this piece in the Harvard Graduate School of Education magazine Ed. about how students are already learning in social networks, why their emerging skills matter, and why educators must engage these tools themselves to help students use them to their full learning potential.
Jeff Jarvis argues that in today’s media landscape, everybody is a network, and that networks are now about sharing, openness, and fluid participation rather than control and one-way distribution. This has powerful implications for education, where schools remain largely static, closed, and control-oriented, and where both teachers and students rarely get to develop true network literacy or practice working in distributed, collaborative environments.