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Echo in the Theatre - Mike Bogle - 0 views

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education faculty tools

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    IMS could tell some tales, I bet
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Bad News : CJR - 0 views

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news tools howard_rheingold rheingold journalism facts factcheck bullshit

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  • Students in Howard Rheingold’s journalism class at Stanford recently teamed up with NewsTrust, a nonprofit Web site that enables people to review and rate news articles for their level of quality, in a search for lousy journalism.
  • the News Hunt is a way of getting young journalists to critically examine the work of professionals. For Rheingold, an influential writer and thinker about the online world and the man credited with coining the phrase “virtual community,” it’s all about teaching them “crap detection.”
  • last year Rheingold wrote an important essay about the topic for the San Francisco Chronicle’s Web site
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  • What’s at stake is no less than the quality of the information available in our society, and our collective ability to evaluate its accuracy and value. “Are we going to have a world filled with people who pass along urban legends and hoaxes?” Rheingold said, “or are people going to educate themselves about these tools [for crap detection] so we will have collective intelligence instead of misinformation, spam, urban legends, and hoaxes?”
  • I previously called fact-checking “one of the great American pastimes of the Internet age.” But, as Rheingold noted, the opposite is also true: the manufacture and promotion of bullshit is endemic. One couldn’t exist without the other. That makes Rheingold’s essay, his recent experiment with NewsTrust, and his wiki of online critical-thinking tools” essential reading for journalists. (He’s also writing a book about this topic.)
  • I believe if we want kids to succeed online, the biggest danger is not porn or predators—the biggest danger is them not being able to distinguish truth from carefully manufactured misinformation or bullshit
  • Ed Webb on 15 Mar 10
     
    As relevant to general education as to journalism training
Ed Webb

Office of Educational Technology (OET) - 1 views

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education technology edtech DOE government Duncan

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  • Secretary Arne Duncan invites comments on the draft National Educational Technology Plan.
  • This plan is a draft. "We are open to your comments," Secretary Duncan said. "Tell us about how technology has changed your school or classroom." Read the plan. Share your comments, videos and examples of how technology is changing and improving education.
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TypeWith.me: Live Text Document Collaboration! - 0 views

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collaboration writing document etherpad web2.0 tools text resources

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    Etherpad lives on
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The Ed Techie: Montaigne, the Godfather of blogging - 0 views

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blogs blogging bloggers Montaigne mweller

shared by Ed Webb on 04 Mar 10 - Cached
  • "Montaigne was living his skepticism, daring to show how a writer evolves, changes his mind, learns new things, shifts perspectives, grows older—and that this, far from being something that needs to be hidden behind a veneer of unchanging authority, can become a virtue, a new way of looking at the pretensions of authorship and text and truth. Montaigne, for good measure, also peppered his essays with myriads of what bloggers would call external links"
  • Honesty
  • Openness
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  • Relaxed style
  • element of the personal
  • Reflective and questioning
  • Playfulness
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Professors Find Ways to Keep Heads Above 'Exaflood' of Data - Wired Campus - The Chroni... - 0 views

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data information overload google tagging tags research

shared by Ed Webb on 25 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Google, a major source of information overload, can also help manage it, according to Google's chief economist. Hal Varian, who was a professor at the University of California at Berkeley before going to work for the search-engine giant, showed off an analytic tool called Google Insights for Search.
  • accurately tagging data and archiving it
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