(2008-05-31) Pesce Social School

Mark Pesce notes how schools (Educating Kids) try to block kids from using Social Technology (Social Software, Mobile) all day, only proving how irrelevant school is to reality. Let me be clear: I am a strict Constructivist. I believe that children learn through interactions with their environment. I had come to realize that the environment for a child born at the turn of the millennium looked nothing like the world of 1962, the year I was born.... Mizuko Ito, a Japanese researcher, studied teenagers in Japan a few years ago, and found that these kids - from the moment they wake up in the morning, until they drop off to sleep at night - are enaged in a continuous and mostly trival conversation with, on average, five other friends. (Co Presence, Full Time Network)

With interesting bit about Stephen Collins' insertion of a Wiki into the board meetings of his kid's school, leading to broader adoption through the school.