Complex Claim

Kevin Eaton

In order for us to figure out the technology of the learning sphere as our learning source we need to harness its capability to connect the minds of people globally.

In Peter Cookson’s article, “What Would Socrates Say,” he talks about the learning sphere. The learning sphere is the online database we call the internet but the way we would use it is for schooling, so we would be able to have schooling both in and out of school. But what it would do is allow us to link more people to basically make a larger class room and learn from your peers as well as yourself. The learning sphere could interlink the minds of the world so we learn from one another and learn a vast array of different things.

But as seen in the video “A Vision of Students Today” by Michael Wesch and his students at Kansas State University, that large class sizes are not always a good thing. Wesch’s students were complaining about things such as having a class size of 115 and only 18% of teachers actually knowing their name. But imagine if we were to interlink the learning sphere to learn from a teacher as well as students that are taking part in the sphere there would be a very low level of personal link to the activities. Not only would the class sizes be bigger and still only having one teacher but you wouldn’t even have personal contact with the people you were discussing the topics with. Many people go to school in class sizes the size of 30 or 40 and feel as if they have no personal one on one time to further themselves. The point is maybe our ideas of what and how to use the internet is corrupting us, and will not help us maybe it will hurt more than help.

In order for us to figure out the technology of the learning sphere as our learning source we need to harness its capability to connect the minds of people globally. Because many people might find it rather fascinating and grow as learners to become better educated and also have a wider view of people. We would be able to link to people all over the world and have a quite literally a world of learning at their fingertips. I believe that the learning sphere as our learning source has great options and will help us to come together, not only as a nation but possibly worldly. I believe this because I have gotten to know a couple of foreign exchange students in the past and they were used to a much different lifestyle and learned much differently from how we do. We are getting close to having those possibilities of connecting our minds and our worlds. If the learning sphere isn’t working we can move on to other sources of education