Today’s talk will be focused on changes of the web due to technological development and the emergence of the social web.

Our world is like Jampong (a combination korean chinese noodle soup dish).

The future of the web. The next web. What is it? Instead of the PC being the node… people will be the node. Our conversations, pictures, and the stuff generated by us will be the future of the web.

Action Potential – In the brain… neurons need a sort of critical mass to do something.

For the web this is also true. The old web is the data web. The focus was on the structure and connections, not the energy that was created.

Today it is evolving. Take for example Twitter… most tweets and comments get lost. But certain tweets / videos / conversations pick up enough steam that they achieve critical mass. They have action potential.

Twitter party example in Korea – create an event in Korea where Korean twitters can meet each other. It was a success. Got me curious about creating a social action event… so I looked for an example and I found Twistival

I have been using Twitter to test ideas. I throw an idea out there and if people like it… it gets picked up and it snowballs. Large amounts of energy can be gathered and focused in a short time thanks to these new technologies like Twitter.

The brain works similar to this. Brain connections that are not used are pruned away.

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But video games have moved well beyond entertainment. From addictions, to ADD therapy, to providing comfort during economic recessions and depressions, video games are playing an increasingly active role in defining us.

With the role of video games growing in importance, is it really any surprise to think that education will have to follow suit? I don’t think so. Video games as education have existed for as long as I have been breathing. Growing up I played Number Crunchers, Math Blaster, Oregon Trail, and US Presidents to name a few. Even games that I wouldn’t have considered educational at the time contain educational value (Sim City) according to Mark Prensky. Simulations (like Sim City) were once “the province of gamers, scientists, and the military, [but today] has emerged as a huge buzzword in training.” Take for example the flight simulator. The “flight simulator was originally conceived as an entertainment device for fairs. Nevertheless, the flight simulator is [now] acknowledged as a revolution in learning and training [by the military and commercial flight schools].”

The real question is will games ever be accepted by those who need to accept it – the teachers and parents? That is a much more difficult question to answer. According to a 2007 survey conducted by Project Tomorrow we have some work to do in this area.

Among the survey findings:

• More than half of students in grades 3 through 12 believe educational gaming would help them learn.
• Only 16% of teachers, 15% of administrators and 19% of parents are on board today – although there was significantly more support for further exploration of the potential.
• And 11% of teachers say they’re already using video games in class, no matter how much you roll your eyes.

To download the full report by Project Tomorrow click the link below.

Speak Up: 2007 National Findings

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Although not necessarily an educational technology per se, as a 25 year old uninspired lad who has only very rarely participated in the democratic institutions to which I am entitled, this presents an educational opportunity – the opportunity to become an active citizen. All of a sudden I can participate and interact with others without having to go out of my way to drop in at the City Hall or pay for my dinner with Barack Obama. I can pose my questions and receive my responses on my own time.

Combine Moderator with a Twitter aggregator like Election 2008 and you have a powerful new way of participating in civil society – a virtual civil society. For technophiles like myself this is a wonderful new way to get in touch and stay in touch with the happenings in your community. This has implications for those of us who are too lazy to participate otherwise, but also those of us who cannot participate otherwise because we are living overseas for instance.

So in a nutshell what is Google Moderator?

Moderator is another one of Google’s infamous “20 percent” projects, produced on the 20 percent of Heath’s time that Google allots all of its engineers to work on their own ideas. The simple idea behind Moderator is to offer a public forum in which users can submit questions that they believe should be asked during a specific meeting or event.

- The above was borrowed from David Chartier at Ars Technica

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