Digital Delights - Digital Tribes

"There is a ‘critical thinking’ deficit in higher education. The chief aim of the higher education curriculum seems to be more about helping students absorb facts and less about helping them develop as critical thinkers. Information is passed on to students without setting aside time for examining the contextual nature and cultural base of knowledge. 

Without the benefit of developing the habit of examining the contextual nature and cultural base of knowledge, students absorb information while still remaining blind to the impact of their worldviews on the way they perceive or conceive of the world. 

Put another way, for all higher education is, and for all the good it does, it does a rather poor job of promoting the learning process as an opportunity for students to be aware of the context and cultural base of their knowledge."