"OK - I'll bite ...

If we look at social software as one of the micro-granules of the Learning/Teaching domain, then yes, on the surface it is learner driven and it could be tagged as androgogical. But surely in the learning field we work in a holographic and interconnected universe. While the early adopters were undoubtedly the students, *we* are the drivers of educational use of social software ... and we are pedagogues. Hence, it is a pedagogical tool, is it not? ;-)

Of more concern than the ownership - or the label we give these tools - is the question of appropriate use. Many of the social networking tools I have seen are solutions in search of problems. Yes, they are shiny and seductive and oh so cool - but until we start applying rigour to our course design processes, the danger may be that these strategies will be used merely because they are there ..."