One of the biggest business battles of our time is between Microsoft and Google. The two have very different business models.
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Flip This Library: School Libraries Need a Revolution - 82 views
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This article was written in 2008. I wonder how many libraries have changed since then?
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libraries
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Good framework for what a learning commons could be - but how can we do it in narrow library centers?
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The Internet's Dark Ages - The Atlantic - 51 views
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It’s not a place in any reliable sense of the word. It is not a repository. It is not a library. It is a constantly changing patchwork of perpetual nowness.
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It’s unstable.
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“Except when it goes, it really goes,” said Jason Scott, an archivist and historian for the Internet Archive. “It’s gone gone. A piece of paper can burn and you can still kind of get something from it. With a hard drive or a URL, when it’s gone, there is just zero recourse.”
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Ed Tech Trek: Announcing Diigo Educator Accounts! - 2 views
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In short, it allows teachers to create students accounts without the need for email, something that is typically a stumbling block for many Web 2.0 sites given that many younger students do not have email addresses.
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"Students on Diigo? Isn't that a social networking site?"Yes, it is, but safegaurds have been put in place with the student accounts that limit the social aspects of the program.
Educational Leadership:Closing Opportunity Gaps:The Myth of Pink and Blue Brains - 36 views
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Few other clear-cut differences between boys' and girls' neural structures, brain activity, or neurochemistry have thus far emerged, even for something as obviously different as self-regulation.
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Our actual ability differences are quite small. Although psychologists can measure statistically significant distinctions between large groups of men and women or boys and girls, there is much more overlap in the academic and even social-emotional abilities of the genders than there are differences (Hyde, 2005). To put it another way, the range of performance within each gender is wider than the difference between the average boy and girl.
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epigenetic
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Magazine - The Atlantic - 48 views
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I love the picture
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I think we forget to ADD our knowledge to the "great database" in the sky. Maybe our curriculum needs more of this?
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Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes
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""Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?" So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial " brain. "Dave, my mind is going," HAL says, forlornly. "I can feel it. I can feel it." "
Podcasting in Education - 80 views
Mike, I am new to diigo, and am looking to incorporate social bookmarking in my High School level classes. I came upon your post and thought I'd share my blog post Podcasting with Gcast (http://n...
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