Past is Present again

The read/write web or Web 2.0 has the power to bring us all together in a world where there is no difference between the reader and the author or the teacher and the student. A world where we can share our knowledge and our experiences and interact with others.

How can this technology teach? We can interact with people from diverse cultures, ethnicity and even ages. People with opinions or interests can post and their posts can become conversations. We can learn as we seek to understand each other and research our own opinions for public consumption.

I'd like to share an example of the learning experience of sharing and interacting by inviting you to view Geriatric1927.

In some distant past we learned from the elders through oral tradition sitting around the campfire, and now this elderly gentleman has over 270,000 views , over 2,000 comments and over 4,000 emails. People are learning from living history and now have the ability to talk directly to each other across the digital campfire of the global village