Individual Knowledge in the Internet Age (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views
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Internet is such a ready mental prosthesis
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If public intellectuals can say, without being laughed at and roundly condemned, that the Internet makes learning ("memorizing") facts unnecessary because facts can always be looked up, then I fear that we have come to a very low point in our intellectual culture. I fear we have completely devalued or, perhaps worse, forgotten about the deep importance of the sort of nuanced, rational, and relatively unprejudiced understanding of issues that a liberal education provides.
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that collaborative work via the Internet makes more traditional modes of study old-fashioned and also unnecessary. The first attack is on the content of learning; the second is on the method.
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"The bottom line is that how well an employee can focus might now be more important than how knowledgeable he is. "
