PLN 23 - How Cognitive Surplus Can Change The World

Clay Shirky's talk on "How Cognitive Surplus Will Change The World" talks about how we can make a better world by sharing our brain power.  He uses examples like the Ushahidi website, which started out as a very localized site and is now a worldwide site.  Cognitive surplus is benefiting our world in many ways.  Little ideas can turn into huge ideas for our world.  The blogger that wrote about all the violence going on in Kenya was getting more reports from the field than she could keep up with.  By reaching out to other minds, she learned about two programmers who could take all the different and fast moving information and create one central website.  This shows that we can work together and share our brain power to improve the world.  Clay Shirky's talk relates to me because I learned just how much my ideas can benefit others.  This relates to the classroom when we all put our minds together we get a lot more work done than we would if we were working alone.  This relates to the world because our future can be even better if all of us contribute our ideas and knowledge.