Andrew Whitworth is the director of teaching and learning strategy at the Manchester Institute of Education, whose research interests in information literacy include e-learning and organizational effects on learning. In an earlier work, he voiced concern that “cultural comfort and passive consumption of technologies can lead them to do a lot of our thinking for us” [1]. He provides the example of automobile drivers' reliance on global positioning system (GPS) for navigation and contrasts this with the critical judgment required to use a traditional road map.
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