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Dana Longley

New Jack Librarian: When an imploring librarian is not enough - 0 views

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transliteracy information literacy citing sources Google library instruction

shared by Dana Longley on 08 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Dana Longley on 08 Oct 10
     
    Google vs Google Scholar vs library databases - how citations helped wean some students off Google.
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The Myth of Wikipedia Democracy - Page 1 - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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wikipedia information literacy

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  • "The idea that a lot of people have of Wikipedia is that it's some emergent phenomenon—the wisdom of crowds, swarm intelligence, that sort of thing… like we're a lot of ants, working in an anthill," Jimmy Wales, the site's co-founder, has said. "It's kind of a neat analogy, but it turns out it's actually not much true."
  • "The idea that a lot of people have of Wikipedia is that it's some emergent phenomenon—the wisdom of crowds, swarm intelligence, that sort of thing… like we're a lot of ants, working in an anthill," Jimmy Wales, the site's co-founder, has said. "It's kind of a neat analogy, but it turns out it's actually not much true." Wales examined the numbers several years ago and was surprised to learn that the most active 2 percent of users had performed nearly 75 percent of the edits on the site. "There's this tight community that is actually doing the bulk of all the editing," he said. "I know all of them, and they all know each other."
  • l Street Journal reported that a growing number of Wikipedia's editors are throwing in the towel, fed up with the many rules the site has instituted as it has matured. The story suggested the exodus could threaten "the brand of democratization that Wikipedia helped to unleash over the Internet—the empowerment of the amateur."
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  • "The idea that a lot of people have of Wikipedia is that it's some emergent phenomenon—the wisdom of crowds, swarm intelligence, that sort of thing… like we're a lot of ants, working in an anthill," Jimmy Wales, the site's co-founder, has said. "It's kind of a neat analogy, but it turns out it's actually not much true." Wales examined the numbers several years ago and was surprised to learn that the most active 2 percent of users had performed nearly 75 percent of the edits on the site. "There's this tight community that is actually doing the bulk of all the editing," he said. "I know all of them, and they all know each other."
  • . "The idea that a lot of people have of Wikipedia is that it's some emergent phenomenon—the wisdom of crowds, swarm intelligence, that sort of thing… like we're a lot of ants, working in an anthill," Jimmy Wales, the site's co-founder, has said. "It's kind of a nea
Dana Longley

The Truth About Girl Scouts and the Need for Digital Literacy - 1 views

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digital literacy information evaluation

shared by Dana Longley on 24 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Dana Longley on 24 Feb 12
     
    from: Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning. A great case study on the need to evaluate your sources (and to take ANYTHING a politician says with a grain of salt)!
Dana Longley

LOEX: Fostering Discovery (for Teaching with Discovery Tools) - 0 views

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information literacy teaching library instruction discovery tools instructional design

shared by Dana Longley on 06 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Dana Longley on 06 Aug 13
     
    Compiles problems encountered when teaching with discovery tools and shares possible solutions developed at the LOEX 2013 conference
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