Comments on: Education, Young People and the Social Graph http://www.jonesieboy.co.uk/blog/2007/11/28/education-young-people-and-the-social-graph/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:50:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: John http://www.jonesieboy.co.uk/blog/2007/11/28/education-young-people-and-the-social-graph/#comment-20345 John Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:41:56 +0000 http://www.jonesieboy.co.uk/blog/2007/11/28/education-young-people-and-the-social-graph/#comment-20345 <em>Wouldn’t you feel a bit weird if you were told tomorrow that you were going to work for someone but that in your work you would be unable to use any of your personal username/passwords, and would instead have to operate online with a new identity?</em> no that sounds quite familiar;-) I can't access any email accounts other than my school on at school. Wouldn’t you feel a bit weird if you were told tomorrow that you were going to work for someone but that in your work you would be unable to use any of your personal username/passwords, and would instead have to operate online with a new identity?
no that sounds quite familiar;-) I can’t access any email accounts other than my school on at school.

]]> By: jonesieboy http://www.jonesieboy.co.uk/blog/2007/11/28/education-young-people-and-the-social-graph/#comment-20341 jonesieboy Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:47:58 +0000 http://www.jonesieboy.co.uk/blog/2007/11/28/education-young-people-and-the-social-graph/#comment-20341 I might well be Tom! But if I'm right, your final question is like my old head teacher's when he asked, some time back in the '90s "why would we want an Internet connection in school?" School will care about a kid's social graph because it will be an integral part of who they are. Wouldn't you feel a bit weird if you were told tomorrow that you were going to work for someone but that in your work you would be unable to use any of your personal username/passwords, and would instead have to operate online with a new identity? I think that's how it will feel to a kid to use a computer system that doesn't allow them to operate as themselves. I guess we'll just have to wait and see :) I might well be Tom!

But if I’m right, your final question is like my old head teacher’s when he asked, some time back in the ’90s “why would we want an Internet connection in school?”

School will care about a kid’s social graph because it will be an integral part of who they are.

Wouldn’t you feel a bit weird if you were told tomorrow that you were going to work for someone but that in your work you would be unable to use any of your personal username/passwords, and would instead have to operate online with a new identity? I think that’s how it will feel to a kid to use a computer system that doesn’t allow them to operate as themselves.

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see :)

]]> By: Tom Hoffman http://www.jonesieboy.co.uk/blog/2007/11/28/education-young-people-and-the-social-graph/#comment-20340 Tom Hoffman Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:38:03 +0000 http://www.jonesieboy.co.uk/blog/2007/11/28/education-young-people-and-the-social-graph/#comment-20340 I think you're barking up the wrong tree with this one, Robert. First off, don't count on open social graphs and SSO arriving any time soon. These have never really been difficult technical problems. I don't really believe things have changed enough to think standards for doing these things will be adopted any time soon. But even if I'm wrong about that, why does the school care about a kid's <i>social graph</i>? I'd need some concrete examples, I guess. I think you’re barking up the wrong tree with this one, Robert.

First off, don’t count on open social graphs and SSO arriving any time soon. These have never really been difficult technical problems. I don’t really believe things have changed enough to think standards for doing these things will be adopted any time soon.

But even if I’m wrong about that, why does the school care about a kid’s social graph? I’d need some concrete examples, I guess.

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