Zittrain also pointed to sites like couchsurfing.org, where people offer and ask for the opportunity to sleep on total strangers' couches, and Kacie Kinzer's 2009 tweenbot project.
The idea is that the students will then absorb all the wit and wisdom on offer and ask more questions, before disseminating it all to the rest of the new class through the raft of social media and interactive channels now available to them.