maybe he has something to say about the use of the w-tools for learning.

As with most educational interventions, though, this is played out against a background of pragmatic factors such as the student’s learning approach, which can often be highly strategic - an example being the development of a strategy for passing the final exam. Ultimately there exists a tension between external or public blogging and the directed use of the weblog within the teaching and learning setting. It is here that we risk losing the elements that make it such a compulsive technology. (Steven Warburton)