Common Knowledge

How We Will Learn in the 21st Century

EXCERPT
p. 161: It is breathtaking to realize that the objects of the animated curiosity of the linguists, herpetologists, classicists—and every other area of study—is now shared by them online and potentially by [any person]: from the children just undertaking to read and write to the geniuses engaged at the highest level of education. Examples of places they or you can peer over the shoulders of knowledge experts are at EdClicks.com in the Common Knowledge section. The Internet provides a common knowledge into which every child, every scholar, and anyone else dropping by may dip.

LINGUISTS
American Sign Language Research Project
Indic Languages
Egyptian Papyri

HERPETOLOGISTS
Deformed Amphibian Research
Jumping Frog Research Institute

CLASSICISTS
The Victorian Web
Forest of Rhetoric

OTHER KINDS OF SCHOLARS

Physicists
Compact Muon Solenoid Collaboration

Ecologists
Pearls and Culture
Elephants of Cameroon