Individual Knowledge in the Internet Age (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE

Individual Knowledge in the Internet Age (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE: "* Similarly, you may get tremendous help solving problems in your math and science classes by working in groups, online or off, but ultimately the knowledge and skills developed are your own. After you have engaged in a study session with others, you had better make sure you can do the problems by yourself. If you cannot, you probably do not understand the material. These four activities — reading, writing, critical thinking, and calculation — should make up the vast bulk of a liberal education. Social learning could not replace these individual, 'Cartesian' activities without jettisoning liberal education itself."

These posts from Larry Sanger's article in EduCause are pertinent to ebook education because so many pundits see the sine qua non of e-anything as collaboration and crowd-sourcing. If a device doesn't permit or encourage collaboration, then it doesn't pass muster with the average commentator. Sanger picks this argument apart in a very solid fashion.