The Connecticon: Learning for the Connected Generation
Frank Rennie, Robin Mason Information Age Publishing. Available on
Amazon at
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1593112092/qid%3D1104939902/202-8111025-1512648
Synopsis
This book makes the case that the changes brought about by the
connectivity of the Internet have so transformed the nature of post
secondary learning that we need to view it differently. Both the content
and the processes of learning have been profoundly altered because of
the accessibility of information and the multi-way interactivity
provided by the Internet. We call this new phenomenon 'the Connecticon'
- which encompasses the paradigm created by the infrastructure, the
content & the multiple connection devices of the Web, the diverse human
resources of Internet users, as well as by the hyper-interactivity of
the connected generation for whom attention is the new currency. It is
the aim of this book to identify and document the Connecticon - its
nature, its impact and its implications. We will do this in the broad
domain of learning, though a similar study could be carried out in
commercial, social or political fields.
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