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Brett Boessen

Does Wikipedia Have an Accuracy Problem? - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    Interesting discussion on academic consensus, speed of change on the web, and wikipedia, responding somewhat to a piece in the Chronicle.
Brett Boessen

stevenberlinjohnson.com: Anatomy Of An Idea - 1 views

  • All these new tools are incredible for making rapid-fire discoveries and associations, but you need a broad background of knowledge to prime you for those discoveries
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      Sounds like a nod to liberal education to me.
  • It's the social life of information, in John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid's wonderful phrase -- we just have so many more ways of being social now
  • people who think the Web is killing off serendipity are not using it correctly
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  • this simple, but amazing fact: almost none of this--Twitter, blogs, PDFs, eBooks, Google, Findings--would have been intelligible to a writer fifteen years ago
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    Lovely mapping of the social development of an idea.   One of his takeaways, point 3, is essentially that one ought to be as liberally educated as possible (though he doesn't use that phrase).
Brett Boessen

Bull beware: Truth goggles sniff out suspicious sentences in news » Nieman Jo... - 0 views

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    Will this tool help critical thinking or make it easier to turn it off?
Brett Boessen

The 10 key skills for the future of work - Online Collaboration - 1 views

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    So, you get a liberal education, heavily influenced by computational and new media literacy/competency? Works for me.
Michelle Kassorla

ENGRADE - 1 views

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    This is a great free course management software program that includes a grade book you can weigh, attendance, calendars, flashcards, a place to turn-in work, wiki and web links, etc.
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