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Anthony Beal

In Search of the Other: Decoding Digital Natives | DMLcentral - 13 views

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digitalliteracy digital natives technology digitalmedia socialmedia

shared by Anthony Beal on 25 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Anthony Beal on 25 Oct 11
     
    Instead of looking at a youth-centric, age-based exclusive definition of a digital native, it is more fruitful to say that people who natively interact with digital technologies - people who are able to inhabit the remix, reuse, share cultures that digitality produces, might be marked as digital AlterNatives.
Robin Cicchetti

Erasing Individual's Digital Past - NYTimes.com - 31 views

www.nytimes.com/...03reputation.html

digital footprint privacy

shared by Robin Cicchetti on 07 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Robin Cicchetti on 07 Apr 11
     
    Online reputation managers - a new job in the digital age. For a hefty fee they can be hired to clean up your digital footprint. The toughest fix is photos on Google images. Nobody seems to be able to remove images. Useful article for lessons and cautionary tales about your digital footprint.
beth gourley

The Library in the New Age - The New York Review of Books - 0 views

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shared by beth gourley on 25 May 08 - Cached
  • four fundamental changes in information technology since humans learned to speak.
  • around 4000 BC, humans learned to write.
  • the invention of writing was the most important technological breakthrough in the history of humanity
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  • second technological shift when the codex replaced the scroll sometime soon after the beginning of the Christian era. By the third century AD, the codex—that is, books with pages that you turn as opposed to scrolls that you roll
  • eventually included differentiated words (that is, words separated by spaces
  • other reader's aids
  • codex, in turn, was transformed by the invention of printing with movable type in the 1450s.
  • technology of printing did not change for nearly four centuries, but the reading public grew larger and larger, thanks to improvements in literacy, education, and access to the printed word.
  • fourth great change, electronic communication
  • movable type to the Internet, 524 years;
  • writing to the codex, 4,300 years;
  • codex to movable type, 1,150 years;
  • would argue that the new information technology should force us to rethink the notion of information itself.
  • Internet to search engines, nineteen years
  • search engines to Google's algorithmic relevance ranking, seven years;
  • continued at such a rate as to seem both unstoppable and incomprehensible.
  • continuity I have in mind has to do with the nature of information itself or, to put it differently, the inherent instability of texts.
  • every age was an age of information, each in its own way, and that information has always been unstable.
    • beth gourley
      beth gourley on 25 May 08
       
      premise
  • pace of change seems breathtaking:
  • news has always been an artifact and that it never corresponded exactly to what actually happened.
  • News is not what happened but a story about what happened.
  • aving learned to write news, I now distrust newspapers as a source of information, and I am often surprised by historians who take them as primary sources for knowing what really happened
  • newspapers should be read for information about how contemporaries construed events, rather than for reliable knowledge of events
  • We live in a time of unprecedented accessibility to information that is increasingly unreliable. Or do we?
  • as messages that are constantly being reshaped in the process of transmission
  • Instead of firmly fixed documents, we must deal with multiple, mutable texts. By studying them skeptically on our computer screens, we can learn how to read our daily newspaper more effectively—and even how to appreciate old books.
  • Unbelievers used to dismiss Henry Clay Folger's determination to accumulate copies of the First Folio edition of Shakespeare as the mania of a crank.
  • When Folger's collection grew beyond three dozen copies, his friends scoffed at him as Forty Folio Folger.
  • eighteen of the thirty-six plays in the First Folio had never before been printed
  • only two were reprinted without change from earlier quarto editions
  • extual stability never existed in the pre-Internet eras.
  • Piracy was so pervasive in early modern Europe that best-sellers could not be blockbusters as they are today
  • They abridged, expanded, and reworked texts as they pleased, without worrying about the authors' intentions.
  • question in perspective by discussing two views of the library, which I would describe as grand illusions—grand and partly true.
  • o put it positively, there is something to be said for both visions, the library as a citadel and the Internet as open space.
  • We have come to the problems posed by Google Book Search.
  • Google proposal seemed to offer a way to make all book learning available to all people, or at least those privileged enough to have access to the World Wide Web
  • will open up possibilities for research involving vast quantities of data, which could never be mastered without digitization
  • Electronic Enlightenment, a project sponsored by the Voltaire Foundation of Oxford
  • scholars will be able to trace references to individuals, books, and ideas throughout the entire network of correspondence that undergirded the Enlightenment
  • notably American Memory sponsored by the Library of Congress[1] and the Valley of the Shadow created at the University of Virginia[2] —have demonstrated the feasibility and usefulness of databases on this scale
  • will make research libraries obsolete
  • 2. Although Google pursued an intelligent strategy by signing up five great libraries, their combined holdings will not come close to exhausting the stock of books in the United States.
  • 1. According to the most utopian claim of the Googlers, Google can put virtually all printed books on-line.
  • If Google missed this book, and other books like it, the researcher who relied on Google would never be able to locate certain works of great importance.
  • On the contrary, Google will make them more important than ever. To support this view, I would like to organize my argument around eight points.
  • For books under copyright, however, Google will probably display only a few lines at a time, which it claims is legal under fair use.
  • 3. Although it is to be hoped that the publishers, authors, and Google will settle their dispute, it is difficult to see how copyright will cease to pose a problem.
  • But nothing suggests that it will take account of the standards prescribed by bibliographers, such as the first edition to appear in print or the edition that corresponds most closely to the expressed intention of the author.
  • Google defines its mission as the communication of information—right now, today; it does not commit itself to conserving texts indefinitely.
  • it has not yet ventured into special collections, where the rarest works are to be found. And of course the totality of world literature—all the books in all the languages of the world—lies far beyond Google's capacity to digitize
  • Electronic enterprises come and go. Research libraries last for centuries. Better to fortify them than to declare them obsolete
  • 5. Google will make mistakes.
  • Once we believed that microfilm would solve the problem of preserving texts. Now we know better.
  • 6. As in the case of microfilm, there is no guarantee that Google's copies will last.
  • all texts "born digital" belong to an endangered species
  • 7. Google plans to digitize many versions of each book, taking whatever it gets as the copies appear, assembly-line fashion, from the shelves; but will it make all of them available?
  • 4. Companies decline rapidly in the fast-changing environment of electronic technology.
  • No single copy of an eighteenth-century best-seller will do justice to the endless variety of editions. Serious scholars will have to study and compare many editions, in the original versions, not in the digitized reproductions that Google will sort out according to criteria that probably will have nothing to do with bibliographical scholarship.
  • 8. Even if the digitized image on the computer screen is accurate, it will fail to capture crucial aspects of a book.
  • ts physical aspects provide clues about its existence as an element in a social and economic system; and if it contains margin notes, it can reveal a great deal about its place in the intellectual life of its readers.
  • Rare book rooms are a vital part of research libraries, the part that is most inaccessible to Google. But libraries also provide places for ordinary readers to immerse themselves in books,
  • Meanwhile, I say: shore up the library.
  • I also say: long live Google, but don't count on it living long enough to replace that venerable building with the Corinthian columns.
  • he research library still deserves to stand at the center of the campus, preserving the past and accumulating energy for the future.
  • beth gourley on 25 May 08
     
    The library as citadel and as the open internet both play an important and distinguishable role.
Antonietta Neighbour

Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com - 20 views

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shared by Antonietta Neighbour on 03 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Simply put, we can’t keep preparing students for a world that doesn’t exist. We can’t keep ignoring the formidable cognitive skills they’re developing on their own. And above all, we must stop disparaging digital prowess just because some of us over 40 don’t happen to possess it. An institutional grudge match with the young can sabotage an entire culture.
  • A classroom suited to today’s students should deemphasize solitary piecework. It should facilitate the kind of collaboration that helps individuals compensate for their blindnesses, instead of cultivating them. That classroom needs new ways of measuring progress, tailored to digital times — rather than to the industrial age or to some artsy utopia where everyone gets an Awesome for effort.
  • The new classroom should teach the huge array of complex skills that come under the heading of digital literacy. And it should make students accountable on the Web, where they should regularly be aiming, from grade-school on, to contribute to a wide range of wiki projects.
  • Antonietta Neighbour on 03 Sep 11
     
    According to Davidson (2011 p7) if we're frustrated at information overload then we should quit operating under twentieth century rules ... I'm currently reading "Now You See It". This is an article about the book.
Marco Gustafsson

The Most Thankful Readers of eBooks are Aged and Impulsive - 0 views

www.digital-book-readers.com/readers-are-aged-and-impulsive

Barbara Fister digital reading ebooks library students

shared by Marco Gustafsson on 17 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Marco Gustafsson on 17 Dec 11
     
    A writer of crime fiction, librarian with many years experience, blogger, observer, reading fun and expert in the digital publishing market Barbara Fister tells to dbReaders.com about the last trends and the most critical issues related with digital reading.
Robin Cicchetti

BBC News - World News America - Why everyone has to be a historian in the digital age - 11 views

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history critical thinking research 2.0 Twitter

shared by Robin Cicchetti on 23 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Physically this data might exist somewhere but the challenge is making it accessible to future historians.
  • "The average life of a web page, as best as we can tell, is about 100 days before it is either updated or disappears.
  • "We are grappling with digital migration as a means of preservation, rather than analogue, paper-based preservation. The Twitter archive ratchets up this activity enormously."
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  • Twitter donated its digital archive of public tweets to the Library of Congress in April 2010.
  • "So not only is everyone producing history, everyone has access to history and everyone has to be a historian in the digital age."
  • Robin Cicchetti on 23 Sep 10
     
    Succinct article about the transience of digital information and the impact on history.
ADAM CARRON

School Librarian in Action: The Role of the School Library and Librarian in the Digital... - 0 views

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shared by ADAM CARRON on 16 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • ADAM CARRON on 16 Jul 12
     
    School Library and Librarian in the Digital Age
Carla Shinn

The Changing Landscape: Libraries and Libraries in the Digital Age - 39 views

www.teachthought.com/...braries-librarians-digital-age

books reading promotion information literacy

shared by Carla Shinn on 18 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Carla Shinn on 18 Nov 13
     
    For Libraries and Librarians in the Digital Age
Cathy Oxley

▶ Growing Up in a Pornified Culture | Gail Dines | TEDxNavesink - YouTube - 5 views

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  • Cathy Oxley on 12 Jul 15
     
    In Dr. Gail Dines' compelling talk, she exposes the effects of porn culture on pop culture and the impact on children and young adults growing up in a pornified culture today, addressing how nonprofit organization Culture Reframed is "solving the public health crisis of the digital age".
Katy Vance

What does a school library look like in the digital age? | Teacher Network | Guardian P... - 0 views

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school_libraries library tlchat

shared by Katy Vance on 07 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • What interests me is not just the explosion of the printed word but the inspirational library spaces created to curate them.
  • As a space, it is about inspiring young people.
  • The senior school library continues the journey. Here we aim to combine the power of the story with a concept premised on the Cabinet of Curiosities. Curiosity in its purest sense where a student's learning is entirely unrelated to examination specifications and is encouraging learning for its own sake. The first cabinet being mooted relates to an evening next term where the films of Charlie Chaplin will provide both entertainment and a cultural reference point. Our Curator of the Cabinet of Curiosities is tasked with supporting this with the curation of a range of objects which will stimulate interest and encourage inquiry. Our approach is unashamedly about inspiring a love of learning.
  • Katy Vance on 07 Jun 13
     
    What interests me is not just the explosion of the printed word but the inspirational library spaces created to curate them.
Cathy Oxley

A journey to iCentre thinking - 13 views

www.slav.vic.edu.au/...urney-to-icentre-thinking.html

learning_journey icentre anne_whisken Information fluency

shared by Cathy Oxley on 14 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 14 Apr 16
     
    A space to build the ability to communicate with others using digital and language fluency - fundamental in an age where networking is key to creating knowledge
Martha Hickson

Visitors and residents: a new typology for online engagement - 18 views

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digital_natives

shared by Martha Hickson on 08 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Martha Hickson on 08 Jul 12
     
    Challenges the premise of digital immigrants and natives, replacing the idea with Visitors and Residents, which accounts for people behaving in different ways with technology, depending on their motivation and context, with categorizing them with respect to age or background.
Carla Shinn

What Is the Role of a School Library in the Digital Age? - 44 views

elearningindustry.com/ool-library-in-the-digital-age

cool tools research 2.0

shared by Carla Shinn on 13 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Carla Shinn on 13 Nov 13
     
    Supporting Students as Producers
Donna Baumbach

Project Information Literacy: A large-scale study about early adults and their research... - 3 views

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information_literacy searches internet web research

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  • Donna Baumbach on 23 Jul 10
     
    Project Information Literacy is a national study about early adults and their information-seeking behaviors, competencies, and the challenges they face when conducting research in the digital age. Based in University of Washington's iSchool, the large-scale research project investigates how early adults on different college campuses conduct research for course work and how they conduct "everyday research" for use in their daily lives... "
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