Individual knowledge in the Internet age

2010-10-23T07:41:24Z

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{{Summary
|title=Individual knowledge in the Internet age
|authors=Larry Sanger
|summary=Sanger attempts to unpack and engage with three claims made by online enthusiasts about education that he thinks are overstated at best. These claims include:

# The idea that access to databases on the Internet mean that memorization is no longer important.
# The idea that group learning is superior individual learning and that collaborative processes on the Internet have rendered individual unimportant.
# The idea that "co-constructed" knowledge by members of a group is superior to lengthy and complicated books.

Sangers discusses some of the arguments that support these claims or that are used by proponents of the Internet to support them (these include Brown and Adler, Carr and Shirky, Bauerlein, Keen, etc.) and concludes that a good "basic education" remains centrally important and that must ultimately be accomplished by becoming acquainted with original sources, the classics, and by reading increasingly difficult and important books.
|journal=EDUCAUSE Review
|pub_date=2010
|subject=Philosophy
|journal_vol=45
|pub_open_access=No
}}

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