Education usually occurs in frameworks where challenges and pains are borne because of personal relationships and commitments. It is tough to see these relationships and commitments being constructed in a virtual arena. The virtual arena, indeed, seems more like a radical extension of the American affinity for non-committal consumption, with the freedom to change the channel at a touch. In a world where students are free to go out to play the moment reading gets a bit boring, there will be no education. In the actual neighborhood, I give permission when you want to use my lawn mower.
Technology tends to bring money and power into focus.
While I join my virtual neighbors, I ought to be aware that everything bringing me together with them is being negotiated transparently .