Wandering the older blog's archive, I find an 11/17/04 entry about active reading that ends this way:

The next sentence should rightfully appear twice, I believe, as both a singular and a plural.

So is blogging a technology and a social space and a body of practices that support the essential act of making what I read mine?

So is blogging a technology and a social space and a body of practices that support the essential act of making what we read ours?

If there is something to that posting, we could press a little further and formulate a standard for educational practices: they should simultaneously help a student make something her own and help a community of learners make something their own, together. I imagine most of our rubrics of program assessment are all about the first -- the accomplishments of the individual. But they don't call it social software for nothing. If it works (whatever it is), it works for each of us as individuals at the same time that it's working for a group of us, as a group.

The meaning we each make for ourselves is related to, but not the same as, the meaning we make together. We need both kinds of skills, together; they probably aren't either of them their full self unless the other thrives too.