Articles

Sanger, Larry, "Individual Knowledge in the Internet Age", EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 2 (March/April 2010): 14-24, <http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume45/IndividualKnowledgeintheIntern/202336>, Accessed April 26, 2010

an analysis of "the recent boosterism of the educational merits of using Internet tools to replace the effortful, careful development of the individual mind" ... looks at memorization, collaborative vs individual effort, and the future of books (and learning from books) ... provides a criticism of a "now-common view, that we can in effect learn less because we can easily find answers online" ... interesting discussion on this article can be found at <http://isenet.ning.com/forum/topics/internet-danger-hive-mentality?commentId=1194706%3AComment%3A68978&xg_source=activity> 

Blogs & Wikis

Jenkins, Henry, "Is New Media Incompatable with Schooling?: An Interview with Rich Halverson", Confessions of an Aca-Fan, March 23, 2010, <http://henryjenkins.org/2010/03/an_interview_with_rich_halvers.html>, Accessed April 5, 2010

digital media gives path to personalized and customized learning ... at odds with current education's batch processing ... digitally literate students know they can learn via traditional school, and/or "interest-driven, unregulated digital media channel"