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Greg Williams

LDS.org - Ensign Article - Focus and Priorities - 0 views

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lds priorities information

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  • principle of accountability also applies to the spiritual resources conferred in the teachings we have been given and to the precious hours and days allotted to each of us during our time in mortality.
  • The significance of our increased discretionary time has been magnified many times by modern data-retrieval technology. For good or for evil, devices like the Internet and the compact disc have put at our fingertips an incredible inventory of information, insights, and images. Along with fast food, we have fast communications and fast facts. The effect of these resources on some of us seems to fulfill the prophet Daniel’s prophecy that in the last days “knowledge shall be increased” and “many shall run to and fro”
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  • “Do you think we need a bigger truck?”
  • our biggest need is a clearer focus on how we should value and use what we already have.
  • But to what purpose?
  • “knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word,” in which “wisdom” is “lost in knowledge” and “knowledge” is “lost in information”
  • We have thousands of times more available information than Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln. Yet which of us would think ourselves a thousand times more educated or more serviceable to our fellowmen than they?
  • I could never complete my assigned task within the available time unless I focused my research in the beginning and stopped that research soon enough to have time to analyze my findings and compose my conclusions.
  • we must begin with focus or we are likely to become like those in the well-known prophecy about people in the last days—“ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Tim. 3:7).
  • But a bale of handouts can detract from our attempt to teach gospel principles with clarity and testimony.
  • Stacks of supplementary material can impoverish rather than enrich, because they can blur students’ focus on the assigned principles and draw them away from prayerfully seeking to apply those principles in their own lives.
  • Each of us should be careful that the current flood of information does not occupy our time so completely that we cannot focus on and hear and heed the still, small voice that is available to guide each of us with our own challenges today.
  • Our priorities determine what we seek in life.
  • “a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth”
  • Our priorities are most visible in how we use our time.
  • Good choices are especially important in our family life. For example, how do family members spend their free time together? Time together is necessary but not sufficient.
  • I believe many of us are overnourished on entertainment junk food and undernourished on the bread of life.
  • Greg Williams on 31 Oct 12
     
    Available information wisely used is far more valuable than multiplied information allowed to lie fallow.
Greg Williams

Connectivism - 1 views

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Connectivism learning theory education George Siemens

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  • These theories, however, were developed in a time when learning was not impacted through technology.
  • In many fields the life of knowledge is now measured in months and years.
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  • The amount of knowledge in the world has doubled in the past 10 years and is doubling every 18 months according to the American Society of Training and Documentation (ASTD). To combat the shrinking half-life of knowledge, organizations have been forced to develop new methods of deploying instruction.
  • Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains. The tools we use define and shape our thinking
  • learning as a lasting changed state (emotional, mental, physiological (i.e. skills)) brought about as a result of experiences and interactions with content or other people.
  • Objectivism (similar to behaviorism) states that reality is external and is objective, and knowledge is gained through experiences. Pragmatism (similar to cognitivism) states that reality is interpreted, and knowledge is negotiated through experience and thinking. Interpretivism (similar to constructivism) states that reality is internal, and knowledge is constructed.
  • Behaviorism states that learning is largely unknowable, that is, we can’t possibly understand what goes on inside a person (the “black box theory”)
  • Cognitivism often takes a computer information processing model. Learning is viewed as a process of inputs, managed in short term memory, and coded for long-term recall.
  • Constructivism suggests that learners create knowledge as they attempt to understand their experiences
  • Constructivism assumes that learners are not empty vessels to be filled with knowledge. Instead, learners are actively attempting to create meaning. Learners often select and pursue their own learning. Constructivist principles acknowledge that real-life learning is messy and complex.
  • learning that occurs outside of people
  • The ability to synthesize and recognize connections and patterns is a valuable skill.
  • In today’s environment, action is often needed without personal learning – that is, we need to act by drawing information outside of our primary knowledge.
  • An entirely new approach is needed.
  • How can we continue to stay current in a rapidly evolving information ecology?
  • We can no longer personally experience and acquire learning that we need to act. We derive our competence from forming connections.
  • Unlike constructivism, which states that learners attempt to foster understanding by meaning making tasks, chaos states that the meaning exists – the learner's challenge is to recognize the patterns which appear to be hidden
  • The capacity to form connections between sources of information, and thereby create useful information patterns, is required to learn in our knowledge economy.
  • A network can simply be defined as connections between entities.
  • Nodes that successfully acquire greater profile will be more successful at acquiring additional connections
  • Finding a new job, as an example, often occurs through weak ties. This principle has great merit in the notion of serendipity, innovation, and creativity. Connections between disparate ideas and fields can create new innovations.
  • Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organization theories.
  • Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions.
  • Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.
  • The starting point of connectivism is the individual.
  • This cycle of knowledge development (personal to network to organization) allows learners to remain current in their field through the connections they have formed.
  • the internet leverages the small efforts of many with the large efforts of few.
  • example of a Maricopa County Community College system project that links senior citizens with elementary school students in a mentor program. The children “listen to these “grandparents” better than they do their own parents, the mentoring really helps the teachers…the small efforts of the many- the seniors – complement the large efforts of the few – the teachers.” (2002). This amplification of learning, knowledge and understanding through the extension of a personal network is the epitome of connectivism.
  • Implications
  • The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe. Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today. A real challenge for any learning theory is to actuate known knowledge at the point of application.
  • acknowledges the tectonic shifts in society where learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity
  • Greg Williams on 12 Sep 12
     
    "Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains. The tools we use define and shape our thinking." . . . or so this fellow argues in a pretty detailed paper
Gideon Burton

The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York Magazine - 1 views

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distraction critique internet

shared by Gideon Burton on 25 May 12 - No Cached
  • What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
Danny Patterson

The concise encyclopedia of economics ADAM SMITH - 1 views

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The concise encyclopedia of economics Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations The invisible hand

shared by Danny Patterson on 27 Sep 10 - Cached
  • autumn gardner on 28 Sep 10
     
    i didn't know much about Adam Smith before this class. This is a good informative site.
Brad Twining

YouTube - A Fair(y) Use Tale - 0 views

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Copyright digiciv Disney fairuse

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  • Brad Twining on 30 Oct 10
     
    Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms.
  • Brad Twining on 30 Oct 10
     
    I just made a blog post for this video. It is pretty informative and presented in a great way!
Katherine Chipman

First World War.com - A Multimedia History of World War One - 0 views

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WW1 history war

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  • Katherine Chipman on 28 Oct 10
     
    An interesting site with a lot of information about World War I. It is also fascinating because it was put together to get the information up, not necessarily to be scholarly. This goes along with what we have been talking about in class---put the information and ideas out there, even before making sure they are ready for scholarly approval.
Gideon Burton

Op-Ed Contributor - How the Internet Got Its Rules - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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protocols internet history RFC open standards

shared by Gideon Burton on 15 Aug 12 - Cached
  • We thought maybe we’d put together a few temporary, informal memos on network protocols, the rules by which computers exchange information
  • Less important than the content of those first documents was that they were available free of charge and anyone could write one. Instead of authority-based decision-making, we relied on a process we called “rough consensus and running code.”
  • Still fearful of sounding presumptuous, I labeled the note a “Request for Comments.”
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  • the R.F.C.’s themselves took root and flourished. They became the formal method of publishing Internet protocol standards
  • Our intent was only to encourage others to chime in, but I worried we might sound as though we were making official decisions or asserting authority.
  • It probably helped that in those days we avoided patents and other restrictions; without any financial incentive to control the protocols, it was much easier to reach agreement.
  • This was the ultimate in openness in technical design and that culture of open processes was essential in enabling the Internet to grow and evolve as spectacularly as it has
  • we always tried to design each new protocol to be both useful in its own right and a building block available to others. We did not think of protocols as finished products, and we deliberately exposed the internal architecture to make it easy for others to gain a foothold.
  • Gideon Burton on 15 Aug 12
     
    Stephen D. Crocker explains the early planning documents ("Requests for Comments") and how they exemplified and made possible the open nature of the web.
Sarah Wills

Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) - 0 views

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margaret cavendish renaissance

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  • Sarah Wills on 20 Sep 10
     
    This has more information about Margaret Cavendish, of whom I did not know very much about.
  • Sarah Wills on 20 Sep 10
     
    There is an interesting bio section. Also, the music stops playing after one navigates away from the main page :)
Katherine Chipman

Privacy and Online Information - Chris Hoofnagle Fall 2007 | OER Commons - 0 views

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online privacy

shared by Katherine Chipman on 29 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • In this course students will first gain an understanding of the basics of how search engines work, and then explore how search engine design impacts business and culture. Topics include search advertising and auctions, search and privacy, search ranking, internationalization, anti-spam efforts, local search, peer-to-peer search, and search of blogs and online communities.
Kristen Nicole Cardon

On the origin of Darwin | Church of England - 1 views

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evolution

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  • Kristen Nicole Cardon on 19 Oct 10
     
    Some information about Darwin's background and some public reaction to his Origin of Species
Madeline Rupard

Helium--An interesting idea. - 0 views

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digiciv open wikipedia blog wiki information revolution communication education knowledge

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  • Madeline Rupard on 14 Oct 10
     
    I stumbled upon this website the other day. Its an article site with a bunch of hired authors. "Wait--hired authors!!" You say, in righteous defense of the open "wiki" model. But the cool thing about hired authors is that they are all viewing and rating each other's articles. Hence, "helium," the best articles rise to the top. I mean who decided that it was the best system to have bored 40 year olds living with their parents as the main source of information. (Let's be honest, those wikipedia articles didn't write themselves.) The good thing about a paid workforce is that there is a sense of pressure under writing the articles. Their business model is in and of itself an "invisible hand." Anyways, i thought it was a cool idea. Voila.
Andrew DeWitt

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse - 0 views

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copyright law legal web rights censorship DMCA

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  • Andrew DeWitt on 13 Oct 10
     
    Interesting Copyright information.  Stuff that is good to know if you get a "cease & desist" notice about content that you are creating/publishing
Kristen Nicole Cardon

Google and Privacy Concerns - 0 views

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Google Privacy Onion Satire

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  • Kristen Nicole Cardon on 28 Sep 10
     
    I know we're not to our privacy section yet, but this is quite funny! The Onion is *ahem* a reliable news source for this sort of information.
Kristen Nicole Cardon

YouTube - Did You Know? - 1 views

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youtube technology education

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  • Kristen Nicole Cardon on 12 Oct 10
     
    Check out this video about information technology progress--invading the cyber frontier
Danny Patterson

Timeline of Charles Darwin's life - 0 views

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Charles Darwin

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  • Danny Patterson on 16 Oct 10
     
    This is a fun timeline of the events attributable to Charles Darwin's life. It includes information regarding his life, his death, and how he has affected society and science after his death.
Ariel Szuch

Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty - 0 views

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psychology of uncertainty

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  • Ariel Szuch on 08 Nov 10
     
    This is a book review, but it gave a little more information on the psychology of uncertainty that classical economics was based on, as mentioned in the readings for economics today.
Bri Zabriskie

About Us (Open Library) - 0 views

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library open science media books wiki publish

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  • Bri Zabriskie on 31 Oct 10
     
    This is an open source wiki-like record of (eventually) all books ever published. I stumbled across it while looking for information about a book for another class. Interesting.
Brad Twining

Copyright Term Extension Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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Copyright digiciv

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  • Brad Twining on 30 Oct 10
     
    More information on Copyright laws and why they are getting to be so long
Kristi Koerner

The Great War Society (1914-1918) - 0 views

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  • Kristi Koerner on 28 Oct 10
     
    good resource for information on WWI
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