George Siemens explains the importance of social software for learning. Learning relies on the ability of forming networks with each other. Social software stimulates learners to communicate, to have a dialogue with each other. Through social software learners can easily connect and share with each other, leading to conversations.
What of the addictive nature as it affects those who aren't initially intelligent enough to filter out thoughts, such as text comments on YouTube, which are simply 'en masse' as opposed to 'well researched' and/or 'intelligently reasoned'?
I think there's a little more to it than 'the better we can talk to one another, the better things are, the more progress in knowledge.'
toReasonWhy 3 years ago