(2016-06-16) Caulfied Is The Web As A Tool For Thought A Gating Item

Mike Caulfield: Is “The Web As a Tool For Thought” a Gating Item? The first, biggest, and most important step is to get people to think of the web as something bigger than just conversation or expression.

In instructional design “gating items” are items on tests which, if not answered or performed correctly, cause failure of the test as a whole

I’ve been thinking about gating items in relation to my work on Wikity. There’s a lot of ideas in Wikity that people don’t get.

What I’ve come to realize is while “Web as a tool for thinking, not expression” is not foundational to the other concepts in a normal sense, it acts as a bit of a gate to getting their relevance. (ThinkingTools)