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anonymous

Weighing In: Three Bombs, Two Lips, and a Martini Glass -- NCAC - 0 views

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  • why books such as Markus Zusak’s Book Thief and Annika Thor’s Faraway Island, both set during the Holocaust, and Laurie Halse Anderson’s Chains, set during the American Revolution, weren’t given any “educational value.” The editor in chief had no clear answers, but those books have now been awarded “educational value” on Common Sense Media’s site. It is clear to the nine organizations that are working hard to protect children and young adult’s freedom to read that Common Sense Media is a moving target, and their piecemeal response to such questions won’t fix what is at heart a misguided and dangerous concept.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 13 Oct 10
       
      Wow! I had no idea. I've used the Internet saftey information and videos but didn't know about the book ratings.
  • While Common Sense Media isn’t censoring anything, it is providing a tool for censors. There is already a documented case in the Midwest where a book was removed from a school library based solely on a Common Sense review. Common Sense Media allows users to filter books by “on,” “off,” and “iffy” ratings. And reviewers are instructed to point out anything “controversial.” Such warnings encourage site browsers to take things out of context instead of looking at books as a whole.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 13 Oct 10
       
      This is a form of censorship.
  • Bombs, lips, and martini glasses! Indeed, let them be a warning. We must be proactive in helping parents understand that rating books is dangerous. Otherwise, more censorship bombs are sure to explode.
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  • If you had asked me a year ago what bombs, lips, and martini glasses have in common, I would have answered, “A fraternity party.” Now I have a different answer. It’s called Common Sense Media. This not-for-profit Web-based organization is in the business of using a “rating” system to review all types of media that target children, but their “ratings” of books are especially disingenuous. They claim that they want to keep parents informed. Informed about what? What their children should read or what they shouldn’t read?
Robin Cicchetti

4 Very Different Futures Are Imagined for Research Libraries - Libraries - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

chronicle.com/...125011

libraries learning commons mobile library

shared by Robin Cicchetti on 19 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • "Research Entrepreneurs," lays out a future in which "individual researchers are the stars of the story."
  • Reuse and Recycle," describes a gloomier 2030 world in which "disinvestment in the research enterprise has cut across society." With fewer resources to support pathbreaking new work, research projects depend on reusing existing "knowledge resources" as well as "mass-market technology infrastructure."
  • The "crowd/cloud" approach is widespread, producing information that is "ubiquitous but low value."
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  • "Disciplines in Charge,"
  • "computational approaches to data analysis" rule the research world. Scholars in the humanities as well as the sciences "have been forced to align themselves around data stores and computation capacity that addresses large-scale research questions within their research field."
  • "Global Followers," describes a research climate much like what we know now, except that the Middle East and Asia take the lead in providing money and support for the research enterprise.
  • nstitutions as well as individual scholars will follow the lead of those parts of the world, which will also set the "cultural norms" that govern research. That eastward shift affects "conceptions of intellectual property, research on human subjects, individual privacy, etc.," according to the scenario. "Researchers bend to the prevailing wind rather than imposing Western norms on the cultures that increasingly lead the enterprise."
  • "I plan to use the scenarios to engage staff and key stakeholders in mapping things out,"
  • The cumulative point made by the scenarios is that librarians should think imaginatively about what could happen and not get hamstrung by too-narrow expectations. (The phrase "adapt or die" comes to mind.)
  • Robin Cicchetti on 19 Oct 10
     
    Discusses changing information formats and scenarios of response. Good article to reference in 5 year plans.
Janice Stearns

School Library Learning 2.0: The 23 Things - 2 views

schoollibrarylearning2.blogspot.com/...23-things_27.html

library library2.0

shared by Janice Stearns on 10 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Janice Stearns on 10 Apr 08
     
    A guide to learning some 2.0 tools for school librarians.
jenibo

Two Things, Not One on Vimeo - 8 views

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Copyright remix Lessig

shared by jenibo on 04 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • jenibo on 04 Oct 11
     
    Another great Larry Lessig video on the hijacking of copyright via vested interests - both an historical perspective and argument for rethinking copyright to allow creativity.  Remixing
Robin Cicchetti

It's official: Google wants to own your online identity - Tech News and Analysis - 7 views

gigaom.com/...ts-to-own-your-online-identity

identity privacy identity service real name google digital footprint

shared by Robin Cicchetti on 30 Aug 11 - No Cached
    • Robin Cicchetti
      Robin Cicchetti on 30 Aug 11
       
      Users forfeit the ownership of their user data to Google.
  • Google’s purpose was clearly to “provide identity in a commerce-ready way. And to give them information about what you do on the Internet, without obfuscation of pseudonyms.
  • obvious search-related rationale for launching a social network like Google+, since indexing and mining that kind of activity can help the company provide better “social search” results. But the real-name issue has more to do with Google’s other business: namely, advertising.
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  • The growth of Google+ provides a reason for people to create Google profiles, and that data — along with their activity on the network and through +1 buttons — goes into the vast Google cyberplex where it can be crunched and indexed and codified in a hundred different ways
  • excludes potentially valuable viewpoints that might be expressed by political dissidents and others who prefer to remain anonymous. In effect, Schmidt said Google isn’t interested in changing its policies to accommodate those kinds of users: if people want to remain anonymous, he said, then they shouldn’t use Google+.
  • the reason Google needs users with real names is that the company sees Google+ as the core of an identity platform it is building that can be used for other things:
  • n identity service, so fundamentally, it depends on people using their real names if they’re going to build future products that leverage that information
Jennifer Dimmick

ArchivesInfo: What is Information? Teaching Information Skills to High School Students - 39 views

archivesinfo.blogspot.fr/...t-is-information-teaching.html

informationliteracy orientation

shared by Jennifer Dimmick on 01 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • On a path to boost student research skills, I have been working with freshmen English teachers and administration to  evaluate the research skills of incoming freshmen. This past week, we had all freshmen classes take an assessment that is considered a standard in this area. (The test shall remain nameless.) Its focus is on particular research skills. It asks questions about things such as Boolean searching, MLA format, etc. etc. I immediately follow the test by teaching a class about information during the second half of the period.
  • Jennifer Dimmick on 01 Oct 12
     
    Blog post on teaching information literacy to high school students
Penny Roberts

Nothing Beats the Real Thing! Home. - 0 views

www.nothingbeatstherealthing.info/index

Resources film-making digital citizenship

shared by Penny Roberts on 24 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Penny Roberts on 24 Jul 14
     
    Student film-making resource.
Janice Stearns

LibraryThing | Catalog your books online - 1 views

www.librarything.com/

books languagearts library social tagging web2.0

shared by Janice Stearns on 09 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Janice Stearns on 09 Apr 08
     
    Enter what you're reading or your whole library-it's an easy, library-quality catalog. LibraryThing also connects you with people who read the same things.
susana cruz

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

www.booktrust.org.uk/...701

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.
Milly Pannunzio

Forecasting the Future of Libraries 2015 - 0 views

americanlibrariesmagazine.org/...g-the-future-of-libraries-2015

professional development the future of libraries

shared by Milly Pannunzio on 06 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • Milly Pannunzio on 06 Apr 15
     
    "I used to think being trendy was a bad thing-a sign of someone who lacks individuality or perhaps is fickle. But in a world of rapid change where people are more and more aware of the latest technology, news, and innovation, being trendy-or at least knowing what's trendy-is almost essential." (Figueroa)
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