How Blogs, Social Media, and Video Games Improve Education

“Up until now, ‘technology’ has been an authority delivering the lecture which [students] memorized. If there is discussion, it’s mostly about performing for the teacher. Is it possible to make that more of a peer-to-peer activity? Blogs and forums and wikis enable that.”

http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2012/0424_education_technology_west.aspx