Welcome and thank you so much for your very kind words – and grateful for the link and your response. My post reflects some of the conflicts I’ve observed in relation to the chasm (and hear about from some of my clients) and my attempts to find ways to bridge them.

Right now, I’m trying to locate the people who understand what’s happening, find out how they are negotiating the chasm and, hopefully, connect with them. I’ve had very good advice from a couple of key online innovators. They say we have to focus on the students – the students are the adopters. They get it. We need to listen to them.

Traditional education must adapt to the philosophy of the “end user” or perish.

I recently linked to “Wired Students, Wired Approaches” in a reflection I on my blog. I found you by searching on Technorati, which I occasionally use to find new blogs about education, participatory media, and so on. (Otherwise, I think I would read the same 10 blogs every day!)

Your observations on student engagement resonate with me as I am traversing this crazy (and fun!) web 2.0 landscape as both teacher and student.

Your writing is rich and thoughtful and touches on a number of significant themes. (I am growing weary of the posts clogging up my aggregator that begin something like this: “Off to a conference, not much time to write. . . .)

We share a number of similar interests. I look forward to reading more from you!