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Information rich, and attention poor addresses a frustration many of us feel: there’s too much! it’s all going too fast! I agree with the author that attention is the attribute in greatest demand today. But that misses an important point: abundance is not simply more, it’s also different. Which means (and the author addresses this slightly at the end of the article) we need to think about what changes in this world of “much more”. What changes in how we access information? How we process it? What types of tools do we need to cope? (i.e. visualization tools and methods). Where is our education system falling short?
In my own, obviously non-opinionated view, education as a system has an opportunity to take a different view of how educational experiences are designed and delivered. Open online courses – such as CCK09 – serve as a transparent experiment. How effective is sensemaking in social networks in relation to traditional course cohorts? What role should the educator play? And what role should students play?