Posted by: maxine | January 18, 2008

Economist debates: social networks in the classroom

Economist.com
The proposition: “Social-networking technologies will bring large [positive] changes to educational methods, in and out of the classroom.”

Moderator Robert Cottrell, Deputy Editor of Economist.com

Ewan McIntosh, National Adviser on Learning and Technology Futures
The Proposition’s opening statement:
Cast yourself back to the sixties, to one of those shiny Jetson-esque
infomercials about education in the year 2008.
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Michael Bugeja, Director of Greenlee School of Journalism and
Communication, ISU
The Opposition’s opening statement:
My argument focuses on motives embedded in interfaces and scripts
interwoven in applications.
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