You’d expect more. These are educated, intelligent people who, in general, have achieve some level of success in their careers. No failures here. Yet, you’d expect more of an awareness of what they are doing and how they are treating people who don’t agree with their positions. You’d expect more critical thinking. You’d expect more of a desire to debate and discuss with peple who disagree, if only to learn. After all, these ARE learning professionals.
These are the people who are promoting social media and social learning as solutions to a wide variety of problems, although often they don’t specifically state what business problems would be amenable to social media. It’s understandable that there will be zealots. There were television zealots who told us that TV would revolutionize how people learn, and computer based instruction zealots who told us the same for computers and instruction. Continue reading
