Bill pulls responses to 3 recent articles (and I’d argue a fourth - the Bill Gates “education is the web” thing ) together with a single sentence:
> Just to emphasize, whenever anyone talks about “delivering” education, the implication is that learning is a passive activity that can be brought to people - in other words, getting us back into “consuming” mode.
Learning is active. There’s no getting around that. Therefore, an effective education involves much more than simple content distribution. Framing education as being a series of exercises in content consumption (no matter how great the content may be) doesn’t serve anyone well. It’s also not as simple as grafting on a layer of social networking on top of content. Education and learning are so much more than that.