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James Farmer,
Mar 30, 2005
James Farmer weighs in with a nice post describing how aggregation networks foster communication in social networks such as intranets. The key, argues Farmer - and he is exactly right here, right in an important and subtle way - is that the networks formed through aggregation foster community in a different, and more effective, way that networks formed through structures such as category trees. The analogy is between the pre-planned city, which stifles community, and the organic city, which thrives on it. Farmer taps not simply into the technology but the underlying principles of information organization - principles that should have a fundamental impact on educational design in the years to come. This paper fits right alongside my Learning Networks, George Siemens's Connectivism, Robert Paterson's Going Home - we are all talking about the same thing here, the same underlying principle.
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