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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.
beth gourley

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

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library

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.
Robin Cicchetti

Born Digital, in Video: Identities | Berkman Center - 20 views

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digital natives video Curriculum social media

shared by Robin Cicchetti on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Robin Cicchetti on 09 Feb 11
     
    3 minute video on digital natives and the permanence of their digital footprint. From the Berkman Center, Harvard University.
Antonietta Neighbour

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

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education technology 21stcentury digital teaching

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.
Anthony Beal

JISC Digital Media - Still images, moving images and sound advice - 5 views

www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk

video images audio digital education

shared by Anthony Beal on 16 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Anthony Beal on 16 Sep 11
     
    JISC Digital Media exists to help the UK's FE and HE communities embrace and maximise the use of digital media - and to achieve solutions that are innovative, practical and cost effective.
anonymous

Digital Images Collections Guide | ALA Connect - 0 views

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images collections guide resources

shared by anonymous on 24 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 24 Oct 12
     
    "A curated bibliography of quality digital image collections spanning ~85 subjects, including ~950 digital collections, that have been culled primarily from the LibGuides Community, and several subject areas have been further refined by 20 subject liaison librarians at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.  To browse by 8 general discipline areas see: https://www.lib.umn.edu/media/imageguide (non-editable).  The goal of the site is to share this work with the visual resources community, hopefully making the resource stronger through participation for others to repurpose."
Jayne Davidson

Succeeding in a Digital World - 0 views

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Open University information literacy digital

shared by Jayne Davidson on 19 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • Jayne Davidson on 19 Apr 16
     
    Free course on digital literacy from the Open University
Cara Whitehead

Busting the Myths of Digital Learning - 27 views

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digital learning JogNog

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  • Cara Whitehead on 20 May 12
     
    Survey from JogNog reveals schools unprepared to support digital learning - EdTech Times
Katie Silva

The Definition Of Digital Citizenship | Fluency21 - Committed Sardine Blog - 0 views

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digital citizenship

shared by Katie Silva on 20 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Katie Silva on 20 Nov 13
     
    Infographic to display that is easily understandable for students re digital citizenship.
Katie Silva

Thinking about Digital Footprints | - 0 views

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digital footprint privacy profile

shared by Katie Silva on 25 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Katie Silva on 25 Oct 13
     
    Clear and simple explanation reat for younger students. I like the idea of a 'digital tattoo'.
Susan Harari

UNICEF Digital citizenship and safety - 1 views

www.unicef.org/...resources_18475.html

digital_citizenship UNICEF

shared by Susan Harari on 09 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Susan Harari on 09 Sep 12
     
    UNICEF`s work in digital citizenship and online safety aims to get a better understanding of the digital landscape in a range of different countries, mainly those with a developing or emerging economy.
Catherine Graham-Smith

DERN - 16 views

dern2.acer.edu.au/...digital-identity

digital identity footprint digital citizenship

shared by Catherine Graham-Smith on 21 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Catherine Graham-Smith on 21 Nov 13
     
    Excellent report on teenagers and digital identity
Cathy Oxley

Naming in a Digital World: Creating a Safe Persona on the Internet - ReadWriteThink - 14 views

www.readwritethink.org/...igital-world-creating-843.html

names digital citizenship online safety naming readwritethink school lesson plans

shared by Cathy Oxley on 10 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 10 Jan 10
     
    Naming takes on new meanings in digital settings-as students build personas through e-mail addresses, screen names, and online profiles, they can be unaware of the ways that others may read the information they share.
Antonietta Neighbour

Reports - 17 views

www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/Reports.html

education technology 21stcentury digital teaching research

shared by Antonietta Neighbour on 04 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Antonietta Neighbour on 04 Sep 11
     
    Always Connected: The new digital media habits of young children Learning: Is there an app for that? Can Video Games Promote Intergenerational Play and Literacy Learning? iLearn: A Content Analysis of the iTunes App Store's Education Section White Paper: The Digital Promise: Transforming Learning with Innovative Uses of Technology
Cathy Oxley

Podcast311: Digital Magic Tricks - An ecclectic series of digital learning to... - 1 views

www.speedofcreativity.org/...-learning-tools-and-techniques

WesFryer podcasting digital magic podcast speedofcreativity

shared by Cathy Oxley on 19 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 19 Apr 09
     
    This presentation focuses on a diverse array of web 2.0 tools teachers and librarians can use to enhance classroom websites, collaborative projects, and multimedia reports created by students individually or in distributed teams.
susana cruz

Research blog: Current trends in children's digital books - 0 views

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Traditional books _ digital

shared by susana cruz on 16 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • susana cruz on 16 Oct 14
     
    One thing was certain at the London Book Fair this year: books and e-books are attracting and competing for children's and publishers' attention. While digital publishers are translating thousands of classical stories to a digital format, book publishers are experimenting with the use of new digital tools to expand their business reach.
Alida Hanson

Out of Print - 10 views

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textbooks ebooks books

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."
Geise Library

35 Digital Tools That Work With Bloom's Taxonomy - Edudemic - 0 views

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blooms_taxonomy web2.0 technology_tools

shared by Geise Library on 04 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Geise Library on 04 Jan 13
     
    Relates digital tools to Bloom's taxonomy .....
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