Davidson Reading Assignment

Sorry for the late post, I was not getting notified about the blog post assignments until now. Essentially, the passage talks about the difference between "crowdsourced thinking" and "credentialing:" crowdsourced thinking portrays the idea that no single individual is smarter than the next and which means working cooperatively is more effective than working alone, whereas credentialing is the idea that relies on everyone's different expertise in a certain area of study. The iPod experiment which involved using innovative technology for the use of helping students learn more efficiently highlighted crowdsourced thinking.

Basically, each student was given an iPod to use for educational purposes and to work together and it proved that crowdsourced thinking is effective in its own ways when it proved that students were learning better as a result of working with the iPod. In fact, the author even states,"Students who had grown up connected digitally gravitated to ways that the media and networked their learning in ways we did not anticipate" (Davidson 52). Hence, students learned different ways to use the iPod to be able to work together and learn better. This day and age, credentialing is utilized as a way to run the world, yet the iPod experiment is just one example of how crowdsourced thinking may be more advantageous. Living in a world of constant technological innovation such as the iPhone or iPod that encourages humans working together only further proves the point that crowdsourced thinking may be the toll the world is taking for the future.