Learning and Social Media

Read an article by Marc J Rosenberg recently. It was titled Boston, Social Media, and Lessons for Learning. Here are some of the lessons I learnt from the article.

• Social media is very effective for delivering information speedily and to a large audience in a short time.
• Social media is inclusive as it facilitates the inclusion of a lot of people. The barriers to participating are little or even non-existent. Social media will be good for communities of practice and crowdsourced knowledge.
• But social media can be wrong. Since almost anybody can be involved in contributing information it is easy for people to contribute information that is not accrate.
• Also not all authors involved in contributing content to social media outlets are expert. What these means is that we have to be careful about information that comes via social media.
• Information from social media can be overwhelming. It adds more to the information overload we are already dealing with.