Howard Rheingold joined a team of debaters in Trondheim including Lars Persen, Øystein Imsen, Kjel Atle Halvorsen and live participants by video conference from Australia, France, UK and Zimbabwe. Howard kicked off the debate by giving a ten minute presentation about the implications of social media and virtual communities (a term he is credited with inventing) on how we learn. Marianne Hagelia, joined the debaters in Trondheim and also monitored the Twitter stream along with Dawn Hallybone. Gavin Dykes chaired the debate. The debate discussed how, having entered the post-modern age of connectivity, education is under a lot of pressure. Skills demanded by companies are changing rapidly. Innovation, problem solving, collaboration … Continue reading EFF13: Rethinking how we learn