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SIT DOWN BE QUIET DO YOUR OWN WORK. K-18. WORK PLACE. SOCIAL NETWORKS. CREATIVE CLASS. Creative Class Economic Theory by Dr. Richard Florida. In a Knowledge Based Economy the Creative Class ie. Science, Engineering, Architecture, Education, Art, Entertainment
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SIT DOWN BE QUIET DO YOUR OWN WORK
K-18 WORK PLACE
CREATIVE CLASS Creative Class Economic Theory by Dr. Richard Florida In a Knowledge Based Economy the Creative Class ie. Science, Engineering, Architecture, Education, Art, Entertainment Must have Talent, Technology, Tolerance Social Networks can help develop the next Creative Class
Why one more social network? Wikipedia lists 132 social networks MySpace – 250,000,000 FaceBook – 125,000,000 Bebo – 40,000,000 Classmates.com – 50,000,000 Flixster – 63,000,000 Friendster – 80,000,000 Habbo – 100,000,000
MARC ANDREESSEN GINA BIANCHINI Marc and I founded Ning in October 2004 to give everyone the opportunity to create your own social networks for anything. Today Ning powers the largest number of social networks on the Internet. Over 500,000
90% of online teens have tried social networks They spend 9 hours a week on social networks ½ have talked about homework Work place 70% of new jobs between 1998-2004 are interactive intensive Collaborative, judgment, insight Banking Insurance Health care
Steven Hepplle keynote from 2008 K12Online Conference mutuality community usness
RIT study 2007-2008 children and Internet 50% of K-1 report adult supervision
George Seimens explains, "Knowledge is distributed. Learning is the process of creating networks. This is increasingly aided by technology." George posed a question this week, "If a network structure is a foundation of learning, are our education systems designed to appropriately take advantage of networking opportunities?" http://teachweb2.blogspot.com/2008/09/cck08-network-metaphors-and-week-three.html
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