Prediction Markets

06.04.10 Posted in Moxley, Social Media by Shelley

Last year, I heard an Educause podcast about prediction markets.The podcast described an initiative to harness the power of the collective to make predictions about trends in technology and learning. The podcast is accompanied by this Word document that describes prediction markets and introduces the NITLE initiative. I’m bringing this up because it is a [...]

A Matter of Perspective

06.02.10 Posted in Moxley, Reading, Social Media, collaboration, education by Shelley

In “Why Heather Can Write,” Henry Jenkins (2006) writes, “Gee’s focus is on the support system that emerges around the individual learner, while Pierre Levy’s focus is on the ways that each learner contribues to the larger collective intelligence; but both are describing parts of the same experience…” (p. 192). This seems to be the [...]

From Standing to Shouldering

05.25.10 Posted in Moxley, Social Media, collaboration, literacy by Shelley

William Calvin, in his response to the 2010 World Question How is the internet changing the way you think?, concludes that the internet allows you to “stand on the shoulders of a lot more giants at the same time” since, compared to traditional methods of researching, much more information is available much more quickly. People [...]

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