Academic Literacy Knowledge Essay
Description:
Belisle (2006, p. 55) discusses the possibility that “digital knowledge [will] open new horizons for the human art of thinking and creating knowledge”. Discuss this with relation to both possibilities and drawbacks for society by answering the question: In what ways are digital technologies changing how we think and create knowledge?
Concepts you may wish to integrate include:
- The social construction of knowledge
- The democratisation of knowledge
- The global brain
- Digital divide
- Information overload
- The outsourcing of cognition
- Technological determinism