Monitor Talent Network (which represents me as a speaker) is publishing a blog, Now, New, Next, for the Harvard Business Review. The lead post is my short rant about social media in education.

It’s time for social media literacy to enter mainstream education.

Learning to use online forums, be they social network services like MySpace and Facebook, blogs, or wikis is not a sexily contemporary add-on to the curriculum - it’s an essential part of the literacy today’s youth require for the world they inhabit.