Learning and Social Networking

I think one of the key changes we need to consider over the next season as we develop new ways of enhancing learning is to recognize how learning happens naturally outside of the classroom. Bob Carlton fired me over a link which is a discussion with Danah Boyd. Here is the blurb about her:

boyd, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Information, explores how young people negotiate the presentation of self in online mediated contexts. Her research focuses on how this young audience engages with "digital publics" - connected social spaces such as MySpace, LiveJournal, Xanga and YouTube.