Sail’s Pedagogy

Henry Jenkins writings has influenced my class in both content and even the recent name change. He has writen a new article on his <a href=”“>blog, entitled Critical Information Studies For a Participatory Culture (Part One)

“A participatory culture is a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating and sharing one’s creations, and some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices. A participatory culture is also one in which members believe their contributions matter, and feel some degree of social connection with one another. Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.”

In this class we mostly talk about education, but if you read this article it Web 2.0 also relates to businesses and our own lives. We have all changed from consumers to producers.

Jenkins, H (2009). Critical Information Studies For a Participatory Culture (Part One). Retrieved April 9, 2009 from http://henryjenkins.org/2009/04/what_went_wrong_with_web_20_cr.html

Marshall Kirkpatrick writes about the size of Facebook. What can we do if we all organized together, and used our numbers to change the world?

At 200 million users, Facebook is:

• Twice as big as the largest number of people who have ever watched a Superbowl game
• Twice as big as YouTube
• Twice as big as Skype
• Bigger than the number of people who own gaming consoles in their homes (190m)
• Bigger than the population of all but 4 countries in the world. (Just passed Brazil, next in line is Indonesia and then the US.)
• Twice as big as eBay.
• Four times as big as the number of people in the US who run on treadmills.
• It’s twice as big as the number of malnourished people in India. Another way to look at that is to imagine that half of the people on Facebook were malnourished and living in one place.