Chris Lott just keeps writing what I should have been thinking. Here’s another one of the “Oh. Ya. Of course. Duh, me,” moments:

Blogging is Dead. Long Live the Blog.
Let’s forget about the dying of the blog and start paying attention to the incredible wave of lightweight, frictionless, gatekeeper free participation mechanisms that are now at our command for utterances large and small.

Smack this post up against the Mob Rules post and what do you get?

Ok, most of you are thinking, “Wow, we’re learning about how the network works and what a cool thing this is!” or something of the sort. And, ya, that’s the sort of direct lesson, but step back up to the meta-lesson. This is, afterall, a course in the principles of distance education.

The use of blogs and aggregators — and my insistance that we get out of the Bboard garden — have put us directly into the stream of authentic engagement. This is what we (the Mob, the Field, the whatever you wanna call it) are doing and thinking now. This moment. Today. Well, yesterday, or last week, but you get my point. This is not filtered through a corporate editorial board, produced by a marketing department, sold to a schoolboard, and passed through a two year adoption cycle until it’s obsolete before you ever see it in a class.

This is what Education is missing. This is where Barb Ganley goes in her classroom based writing classes. This is where your students go when they power on, link up, and turn on to learn the latest game cheats in FFXI. This is why they have no idea wtf u mn 1/2 teh tiem.

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