David White of the University of Oxford points out that “Taking a more Resident approach to education is more than just a question of technology. It confronts underlying conceptions of what it means to learn and what it means to know.” In my understanding this is about epistemology.
From the context of credibilty, the web can methaphorically be compared to, as David White expresses it, “a chaotic library”. This is an interesting way of seeing it. I have myself been very grateful for the opportunities that the web facilitates. And thought about it as a lovely tool and like a library. Critical thinking is of course necessary in this kind of library. But critical thinking is actually something you need in an ordinary library too.
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Picture from jiscnetskills, Univerity of Oxford
