Technology vs. Knowledge

Chris Dede, Harvard
Chris Dede, Harvard

The link below is to an excellent short essay by Chris Dede of the Harvard School of Ed. In the piece, he describes the meeting of classical approaches to education and the web (single-source, expert-based) and the new collaborative Web 2.0 technologies. The meeting of these two approaches creates questions about our assumptions of what constitutes valid knowledge. Take a moment to read it: it’s quite insightful.

A Seismic Shift in Epistemology

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