PLN 23

I watched Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world and he was talking about collecting information donated by individual efforts, globally and locally, through media representation on public internet sites, mobile technology, and other forms of public access media, and then mapping that information to then aggregate and conceptualize societal trends and formulate opinions based on those trends, which he refers to as “cognitive surplus” (although, surplus would be defined as excessive), will, in his opinion, create some kind of global change.  This matters to me because if more and more people start trying to work on things getting better, and this information is provided to them via media sites, then that could change my whole future.  This matters to education because public and private schools could get help and get money to work better and to have a higher budget to hire better teachers.  This matters to the world because if more people use this cognitive surplus (meaning extra) then the situation the world is in right now could get better. Surplus can make better things happen.  Go surplus!