Monday, March 23, 2009

Wk9 - Community & Participation

I hope everyone had a great break! Here's my questions for this week:

1. Gray’s article (2004) discusses informal learning in an online community of practice. How can we apply the idea of a professional community of practice to a network in a K-12 school and would they be beneficial?

2. The article “A Day Without Facebook” is dated Sept. 12, 2006. It has to do with the feed system facebook created and the lack of response from an oligarchic facebook management. Currently, that feed system is still in use. More recently, facebook changed their online privacy policy and had a similar reaction. In response to this, facebook created an all-community system for reviewing a bill of rights for users and a new privacy policy. It seems that an important aspect of a community is the established rules or norms for that community. How then, should social networks determine their user or community’s rule structure or norms or should the social network dictate them to the users and those that don’t like it can leave?

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