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The World at Our Fingertips - Marge Scherer
//A million times a day someone tries some new social tool: someone in Mozambique gets a new mobile phone, someone in Shanghai checks out the Chinese version of Wikipedia, someone in Belarus hears about the flash mob protests, someone in Brazil joins a social networking service. (p. 295)// //—Clay Shirky in Here Comes Everybody//

Or, to bring the reality close to home, someone you know—or maybe it's you?—takes a picture with a cell phone, then posts it on Flickr for faraway relatives to view. Later that day, you browse the month's five most-read articles from //Educational Leadership//, then post a comment on ASCD's Inservice blog about one of them. In the evening, you view a movie—maybe Frost/Nixon—then look it up on Wikipedia to read the consensus on how factual the movie really was.

After that, you might check out an appliance you are interested in buying and view photos of what is available and get advice from owners and prices from dealers. Then, if you have time, you'll tap into your social activist network, to decide whether you want to join in the political action that the group is urging its members to take.

After all that, you might then go check on your middle schooler to find out whether he is doing his homework. When you find out he isn't, you may also find out that he is playing a game in Second Life, texting, IMing, or using social media that you did not know existed. Or—a bright scenario—you find out that learning how to use those new social media wisely and well is his homework.

New communications tools are now supporting group interaction and group actions in ways they have never done before. As a result, the way we communicate, read, write, listen, persuade, learn from others, and accomplish community actions is changing. Or, as someone said when we were planning this issue of //Educational Leadership//, "Literacy—it's not just learning to read a book anymore."

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