tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8608846195788336013.post8540815189096943413..comments2024-03-13T22:25:00.728-07:00Comments on Unearth and Fathom: Digital Learning: The Key To KnowingAmy Bradstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12912770586738069413noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8608846195788336013.post-26814067662176270602011-07-11T05:12:47.727-07:002011-07-11T05:12:47.727-07:00His article sounds like it's just plain offens...His article sounds like it's just plain offensive, and he comes across as very narrow-minded; but then, many [mainstream] folks have a difficult time seeing learning on the broader spectrum and perhaps that narrow-mindedness is not so uncommon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8608846195788336013.post-84832573202787985852011-07-10T17:05:06.942-07:002011-07-10T17:05:06.942-07:00Perhaps Mr. Lanier holds the view that he does bec...Perhaps Mr. Lanier holds the view that he does because he is thinking specifically about the "digital classroom" and its artificial culture, where, it seems to me, new behaviours in the world at large are now clashing in a big big way with a long held tradition of defying everything neuroscience tells us about how human beings learn. <br /><br />As a child of the 1950s with no axe to grind or vested interest to protect and who remembers how difficult if not impossible it was as a child to find out about the world I lived in *for myself*, I can only say that I love the experience of having unobstructed access to so much knowledge and so many new ideas that I can't stop myself from learning at the speed of thought. Thank you, Tim Berners-Lee, thank you Steve Jobs, thank you the three guys who invented YouTube, thank you Jimmy Wales, thank you all the people who have turned my lifestyle upside down in such a way that learning what I want to learn has never been so delightful.Bob Collierhttp://www.parental-intelligence.comnoreply@blogger.com