What's a garage band? Why are we collaborating in writing class?

Here's the short version.  (You can read a more indepth presentation of the importance of social knowing in Kenneth Bruffee and Gregory Ulmer.)

- Thinking doesn't happen until you have a conversation.  (Interiorized, isolated sensations or apprehension of experiences are not knowing.)

- Knowledge is a social artifact -- that is, it is determined by a group or cohort.



- You cannot know (or think)  unless you collaborate.