As a former science teacher with a current interest in virtual worlds and collaboration as well as a passion for education, I got nothing of substance from this. For me the point of an analogy is to help your reader understand your point. If the analogy you choose is outside the expected knowledge of many of your readership such that it then requires it’s own explanation there seems no point to it. Some of the article felt like it was edging dangerously close to the post-modern ‘no such thing as truth’. But I have to confess to not grasping it enough to be sure.

Students should collaborate? Great, of course they should. Is there something more to this?