Action Research and Social Software

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Christopher D. Sessums[Edit][Delete]: Action Research and Social Software, [Edit][Delete] November 21, 2006
"When we frame our actions in terms of experimentation, we can be somewhat relieved of the burden of being perfect." Right. "Richardson talks about the importance of modeling such behaviors, and I believe he is correct." I agree. These basic statements are couched in the model of Action Research in this post, which is a perfectly good model as such things go (the devil is in the details, as always). The post breaks down in the last few sentences, though. It is not about the edublogosphere being a collective, and it is not about evangelizing. It's about modeling and demonstrating, not preaching and converting. More...