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Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert

www.theawl.com/2011/05/wikipedia-and-the-death-of-the-expert

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Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.

For one thing, Wikipedia is forcing us to confront the paradox inherent in the idea of learners as "doers, not recipients." If learners are indeed doers and not recipients, from whom are they learning? From one another, it appears; same as it ever was.