Embracing Change

• The main pitfall of the traditional system is the belief that most of what we know will remain unchanged long enough to be worth learning. The authors contend that the pool of unchanging resources is shrinking. If you ask what has changed on the Internet in the last decade, the answer might be everything. Now information is constantly produced, updated, and altered and new practices of reading, writing, thinking, and learning have evolved with it. The medium is participatory and the environment constantly changes by the participation. We can no longer count on being taught how to handle each change. We need to be more like children who use play and imagination to make sense of their rapidly evolving world. This chapter also includes interesting stories about Harry Potter and Wikipedia.

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