Ok, I can see how this will shape up. Half the class wants Delicious, and half the class wants Diigo. No problem. I'll support either one. Butt you'll have to join at least one of the two groups. Or, join both!
An interesting video of a panel on how essays are important in modern education and professional writing. Ties in well with our discussions on cultural consciousness and writing.
This is an article from science daily citing the same study from the previous article, but it takes it a little bit farther and includes a study done on fifth graders.
Call me a science geek but I think this is just too cool. With the advent of newer, more advanced technologies, Astronomers are running into an unusual problem--too much data to go through themselves.Their solutions has been to put it up online and let people (amateur, everyday people) help them out. I think it connects well to Shirky and Remix. Sure puts a whole new spin on "social science".
The Shallows talks a lot about Google Books, and many of our books have addressed the issue of copyright. This is a really interesting article about "orphan books" and where they fall into this argument. (An orphan book is one that the copyright has not expired, but where they copyright holder is unknown or can't be found)
Larry Lessig's talk at CERN on the way that copyright interacts with science publishing is a stirring call-to-arms to free up scientific discovery and inquiry.
Really interesting article/video about the University of Kentucky's Children's Hospital child and adolescent behavioral health therapist and associate director of the Division of Adolescent Medicine and their views on social media and kids
Thank you, Diana! This is very interesting! It is funny that part of their advice to parents is "Surf the web together with your child - there's a lot your child can teach you." I was expecting it to say something about parents teaching kids to proper ways to surf. LOL