Stephen Downes

Christopher D. Sessums summarizes and discusses 'Connecting Informal and Formal Learning Experiences in the Age of Participatory Media,' which is worth looking at for the way it connects social media, via informal learning, to education. "I am concerned," he writes, "about some of the ways I still see and hear how technology is still considered a disruption in the negative, resource-soaked sense, rather than as a disruption that allows us to re-think what we are doing as educators."