Digital technologies might be a perfect solution to some problems, but those problems don’t include education— not if by education we mean the development of the skills to think critically about any given issue.
As Pamela Hieronymi, a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), points out in an important essay on the myths of online learning, “Education is not the transmission of information or ideas. Education is the training needed to make use of information and ideas.
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