Steven Johnson is one of my favorite writers... he has several books in which he considers media and technology and the effects of each on humans (both individuals and collectively).
Driving home from the Annual Conference last weekend, I was struck by the various presenters who mentioned the need to be innovative. Surely, middle school educators have traditionally been among the most innovative of the K-12 educators, but political forces have been driving us away from innovation in the last decade or so.
As a technologist, I recognize innovation as something young people expect... I also see the Internet as a creation that both connects us and that overwhelms us.
All of this comes together in this brief video in which Johnson talks about the importance of socially-constructed knowledge in innovative and creative thinking.
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