Distributed Intelligence and Web 2.0

In "Distributed intelligence and designs for education," Roy D. Pea suggests that in education, pedagogy, and instructional design, our outcomes and goals should strive to have learners invent their own tools for learning rather than receive information and spit it back.  Pea states that learners should be "inventors of distributed-intelligence-as-tool" rather than "receivers of intelligence-as-substance." The implications of his research are simple.   Teachers should facilitate the creation of tools that will serve as resources for creative and intelligent activities in the classroom whether in individual or group work.  In dealing with technology, the following question comes up:

Are the implications of distributed intelligence different with Web 2.0 technologies?  No.  The Web 2.0 revolution has created a world where "the machine is us" (words by Michael Wesch).  There has never been a time in history where technology has been so easy to learn and use.  Whereas the teacher is the facilitator in the classroom, Web 2.0 technology is the facilitator in our lives.  Web 2.0 allows all of us to create tools that will serve as resources for creative and intelligent activities throughout our lives.