Technology

I think that technology has always been democratized, but note that it isn’t coercively democratized (meaning that people aren’t forced to use what the majority picks). Think, I don’t have to use google, for I could use Ask Jeeves, but I choose to use google because it is better. Also, I could use MySpace all of the time, but instead I use Facebook.

I happen to agree that this is for the better of education. This is especially true in ever changing fields like computer sciences because the medium of exchange is also ever changing. So what I get from Jenkins’ piece is that (given his hypothesis about YouNiversity is right), then education will need to be increasingly more decentralized, constantly changing, and increasingly “digitized.” Meaning that the syllabus for COPXXXX might be much different this semester than it was last semester. As a reinforcement, I must add again, that I completely agree with Jenkins’ take on education in most areas of academia. Also, everyone shouldn’t be so skeptical of wikipedia. I mean don’t get me wrong, it shouldn’t be taken as the word of omniscience, but it is a useful source.