{"id":919,"date":"2010-02-04T20:12:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T01:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=919"},"modified":"2010-02-04T20:17:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T01:17:12","slug":"the-death-of-a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/02\/04\/the-death-of-a-question\/","title":{"rendered":"The death of a question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">From DSC:<br \/>\nWhich question is dead? This one:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Where is the return on investment in all of this technology?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Through the last several decades, as we&#8217;ve invested in PCs, Macs, cabling\/telecommunications infrastructure, wireless access points, LANs, servers, routers, etc&#8230;the question kept being asked, &#8220;Where&#8217;s the return on investment with all of this technology?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> To me, that question is being put to rest once and for all (at least in terms of those sets of technologies.) Why? Because that infrastructure is the foundation of an ever-growing, sprawling, network of connections that people are using more and more to communicate, socialize, learn, and grow. Sure, there are downsides to the Internet, but there are many upsides as well: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399;\">You want a lesson plan? It&#8217;s out there.<\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399;\">You want to hear a lecture on topic A, B, or C? It&#8217;s out there and able to start playing on your PC, Mac, iPhone, etc. in seconds<\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399;\">You need to find directions to place XYZ? As you know, a huge timesaver can be found in services like Mapquest or with GPS-enabled services.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399;\">You want to take a break and watch a show? It&#8217;s on your PC or Mac in a short period of time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399;\">You want to quickly orchestrate an event to catch up with a group of your friends? No problem.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399;\">&#8230;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399;\">&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>I could go on and on, but you get my point: We are at the embryonic stages of an <\/strong><strong>explosion in innovation<\/strong> <strong>that is now possible due to the Internet and the blazingly-fast exchanges of information.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> <strong>Surely, there has been an excellent ROI here!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: Which question is dead? This one: Where is the return on investment in all of this technology? Through the last several decades, as we&#8217;ve invested in PCs, Macs, cabling\/telecommunications infrastructure, wireless access points, LANs, servers, routers, etc&#8230;the question kept being asked, &#8220;Where&#8217;s the return on investment with all of this technology?&#8221; To me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,97,61,31,143,32,35,3,99,149,180,55,64,46,102,7,87,14,23,182,62,133,44,166,40,48],"tags":[56,185,592,589],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-blended-learning","category-business-side-of-he","category-convergence","category-disruption","category-education-technology","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-hybrid-learning","category-informal-learning","category-innovation","category-internet","category-it-in-he","category-k-12-related","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-spaces","category-mobile-learning","category-multimedia","category-new-media-literacies","category-online-learning","category-online-media","category-pace-of-change","category-social-learning-networks","category-technologies-for-your-home","category-telecommunications","tag-educational-technology","tag-roi","tag-telecommunications","tag-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}