For the second time in as many weeks, mainstream media has again hit the nail on the head. TIME magazine has named its 2006 Person of the Year – and it’s YOU. The award is based on our collective ability and willingness to interact, collaborate, and learn from and with each other on a global scale using the tools of Web 2.0. The podcasts and the videos, the social networking tools, the blogs and wikis and mashups. It’s “about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before” and about the energy and passion that drives millions of us to take – make – the time to be a part of it.
It’s about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes … We’re looking at an explosion of productivity and innovation, and it’s just getting started, as millions of minds that would otherwise have drowned in obscurity get backhauled into the global intellectual economy.
It’s this movement that TIME has deemed as having most influenced the events of this year. So congratulations to YOU! Now, what are the implications of this on the future of YOUR students?
