Dear Cain, Shirky, & Keen,
In
past classes, I have had to work online in virtual teams with groups. When it
comes to these groupthinks, I think it’s important that every person in the
group gets their own task to be responsible for. They should have the freedom
and privacy to dive into that task to accomplish it by themselves. By making
everyone work on the same problem, you diminish individuality and propel
intellectual laziness. Given this responsibility, team members will work harder
to make sure that it is done correctly. Of course, once the work is done
everyone else on the team needs to be filled in on what happened so that
everyone is on the same page. I think it is important to bounce ideas off of
each other. This way, more creative minds get to wrap their head around the
idea.
I
agree with you Shirky in that we are more concerned with the quantity of
information, not quality. I know
sometimes when I am researching something, I will quickly scroll through and if
it seems like a lot, I feel it will be helpful and save it for later. The
information may be entirely wrong but this immediacy of information makes it
seem true, as Keen talks about.
The
success of working in groups online all depends on the environment created. There
has to be constant communication as to who is doing what, as well as a common agreement
as to what is an acceptable source of information to draw from.
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