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Judy O'Connell

SCIS | Teacher librarians as cultural change agents - 13 views

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  • Judy O'Connell on 30 Jan 12
     
    "Teacher librarians are involved in the process of change whether they are implementing a program for the first time, making changes to an established program, or participating in some aspect of ongoing school improvement" (Oberg, 1990). The very essence of the work of teacher librarians - improving teaching and learning - requires that they work within the culture of the school and that they also work to change the culture of the school.
Robin Cicchetti

Ten recent algorithm changes - Inside Search - 13 views

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  • Robin Cicchetti on 14 Nov 11
     
    Inside recent changes to the Google algorithm. This excellent post gives an overview of recent changes (500+) made over the past few weeks.
beth gourley

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

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  • 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
  • ...62 more annotations...
  • 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.
amby kdp

Creative Confidence: Learn It, Develop It & Change Your Life - 0 views

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  • amby kdp on 29 Feb 16
     
    Creative Confidence: Learn It, Develop It & Change Your Life [Megan Coulter] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The book “Creative Confidence – Discover Your Unawake Potential & Self-Confidence” explains the most effective and powerful ways to build a spontaneous self-confidence that naturally lives within us. You will find the ways to bring out your unawake creative confidence that is lying deep inside you
Anne Weaver

Coder Factory Academy - 7 views

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Sally Dooley

Free Technology for Teachers: Video - How to Use Google Books for Research - 27 views

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  • Sally Dooley on 04 Dec 13
     
    youtube presentation on google books for research. You can't get to the gear drop down for changing the pdf to text unless it is a copyright free book.
  • Sally Dooley on 04 Dec 13
     
    Youtube presentation on google books for research. You can't get to the gear drop down for changing the pdf to text unless it is a copyright free book.
Cathy Oxley

Web 3.0 promises change for libraries - WEB 3.0 - Research Information - 24 views

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  • Cathy Oxley on 07 Mar 10
     
    The term 'Web 3.0' reflects a momentous change in the way we view the web. Some of the possible avenues for the future include the 3D web, the semantic web, and the real world web.
Joyce Valenza

Education - Change.org: Disconnected - 0 views

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  • Joyce Valenza on 07 Jul 09
     
    Rationale for connecting learners with 21st century tools and projects
Dennis OConnor

YouTube - RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms - 0 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 27 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Dennis OConnor on 27 Apr 11
     
    This is an amazing illustration of Sir Kenneth Robinson's presentation on schooling in the 21st century.  It's fascinating to watch an illustrator create a visual map of Robinson's ideas as they are spoken.  The content of the presentation is enormously important to any educator struggling to change the system.  It's even more important to those who've been subdued and mislead by old ideas into thinking they can't learn or create.
Dennis OConnor

Free Library 2.011 Worldwide Virtual Conference Nov 2-4 « Educational Technol... - 16 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 30 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • The Library 2.011 Worldwide Virtual Conference, November 2 – 4, 2011, is a unique chance to participate in a global conversation on the current and future state of libraries. Subject strands include the changing roles of libraries and librarians, the increasing impact of digital media and the e-book revolution, open educational resources, digital literacy, shifts from information consumption to production (Web 2.0), multimedia and gaming spaces, libraries as community centers, the growth of individualized and self-paced learning, the library as the center of new learning models, understanding users in the digital age, assessing service delivery, and defining leadership and information professional careers in a networked and changing world.
Alida Hanson

Out of Print - 10 views

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shared by Alida Hanson on 21 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Alida Hanson on 21 Jan 13
     
    "Out of Print highlights the sea change underway in the multi-billion dollar U.S. K-12 instructional materials market enabled by recent technology and intellectual property rights innovations. With a focus on the ultimate impact on student learning, the report provides examples of lessons learned from recent digital and open (OER) content initiatives by leading states and school districts and offers comprehensive recommendations for government, industry, and educators to ensure that the inevitable shift to digital instructional materials improves student achievement and engagement and efficiently uses scarce resources."
Carla Shinn

What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains - 8 views

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shared by Carla Shinn on 22 May 13 - No Cached
  • Carla Shinn on 22 May 13
     
    "Most of us are on the Internet on a daily basis and whether we like it or not, the Internet is affecting us. It changes how we think, how we work, and it even changes our brains."
Marita Thomson

Best and Worst Learning Strategies: Why Highlighting is a Waste of Time | TIME.com - 42 views

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shared by Marita Thomson on 09 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Marita Thomson on 09 Jan 13
     
    In a world as fast-changing and full of information as our own, every one of us-from schoolchildren to college students to working adults-needs to know how to learn well. Yet the evidence suggests that most of us don't use the learning techniques that science has proven most effective. Worse, research finds that the learning strategies we do commonly employ-like re-reading and highlighting-are among the least effective.
  • Debbie Abilock on 10 Jan 13
     
    Always good to read the original - in popularizing the information, some of the ideas are misrepresented http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/journals/pspi/learning-techniques.html
Martha Hickson

Kidsmart: Digital Footprints - 17 views

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  • Martha Hickson on 05 May 13
     
    Treat your password like your toothbrush don't share it with anyone and change it often.
Cathy Oxley

How will schools look in 10 years? | News.com.au - 32 views

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shared by Cathy Oxley on 10 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 10 Feb 13
     
    "HOW will the way kids learn change over the next 10 years as new technology takes over in schools? Futurist expert Neil Selwyn from the Faculty of Education, Monash University, gives his predictions. "
Allison Burrell

Home - Transitioning to College - LibGuides at Kent State University - 15 views

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shared by Allison Burrell on 23 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Allison Burrell on 23 Jan 13
     
    "This guide provides information about the changes you will face during the transition from high school to college.  You will find general information about college and how college differs from high school, but the focus of this guide is on college libraries as an academic support service, college level research expectations, and the research process."
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