Papacharissi maintained, “Orality is used to describe forms of storytelling and knowledge sharing that characterize every epoch. . . . Orality describes the form, the texture, the tonality that communication takes on.”564 I would, however, maintain connection or relationship and connected learning more clearly explains this phenomenon. Schrage, in his Merrill Lynch Forum blogpost, made an astute conclusion in relation to learning in this quadrant: The biggest impact these technologies have had, and will have, is on relationships between people and between organizations. The so-called
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