Haesler, a proponent of proactive social media education, posed an interesting question on his blog regarding social media and digital literacy education: what if we approached driver’s education in the same way? Taking this hypothesis one step further, Haesler came up with three conclusions:

For over 20 years we’ve followed every step in the explosive growth of technology and its impact on society. We’ve digitized our collections and put them online. We’ve built websites and mobile apps; livestreamed lectures and performances; and published electronic books, games, and educational materials. We’ve blogged, tweeted, cataloged, pinned, friended, poked, liked, crowdsourced, uploaded, downloaded, licensed, sold and organized. We’ve learned HTML, CSS, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, PERL, PHP, Python, Drupal, ColdFusion, ASP, ActionScript, Applescript, C, C+, C++, C-sharp, Objective C, LAMP, RAMP, MAMP and a few dozen other technologies, and we’ve built things so elegant and stable that they’re works of art in their own right—and so obtuse and convoluted that they’ll be bringing our colleagues to tears of frustration and rage for years to come.