And it’s inevitable it will ring about some social change — how much depends on whether we give students the tools to take control of their destinies…. the sooner we grad network literate students, the more profound the change.

The shame is that universities, which are confused about what they want to accomplish anyway, have no pressing desire to do it better or more efficiently. And they are in many cases so divorced from the world of work that they are not seeing the revolution that is happening.

The truth is we went from the Industrial Age, to the Information Age. And this age will be known as the Network Age. It’s that big a deal, it’s on that scale — which is why i go crazy talking to people that treat the issue as a collection of fads and gadgets.

Hmm… maybe a bigger post on that.

Wow, this is a great post, and the convergence between the political/educational world are pretty clear here. More than that, I tend to agree with you that while so many of these technologies have the promise to revolutionize our institutions fashion themselves and conduct their business, just as much time, effort, and energy is being invested in preventing such a reality. Making so much of the promise of these tools so strangely positioned on a precipice precariously teetering between the possibility for radical change and entrenched reactionary measures. Sorry for the extremes here, but I just start to wonder at what point these tools are providing possibilities that will never be realized until their is a formidable struggle for re-thinking power and authority.