I must say that WordPress is a lot more complex than the e-blog provided by Google.
This is an area where I will try to add my two cents on the state of online learning and some interesting links to others who say and think much more eloquently than I
I must say that Andrew Keen does a good job of taking off the ‘rose-colored’ technology glasses and points out that that in America ( and America light ) that the semi-literate are easily lead by the new technologies, a damning indictment of our educational institutions. But he does seem to come off as an anti-technologist of sorts. Techno realism is what I think is needed, but as can be seen from the dating if the site, not many people buy into this. It’s seems it has to be technological evangelism or Neo-ludditism.
Knowledge is in fact what the individual makes of it and to what use society puts it. This doesn’t speak well of what use we’ve put our knowledge thus far given the current state of the earth and the economies worldwide. I am afraid that the patchwork system (Barbour & Stewart) we have in the secondary system is not preparing people to bring the full cognitive abilities to the online learning environments. People are then getting swamped by the information and looking to be lead to the next saving technology to help them manage the deluge.
I think that the Politics of Knowledge as mentioned by Grundmann & Stehr and others as will dictate to shape what we will be allowed to know as cognizant citizens and will relegate others to information pergatory
