The divide in academia - those who blog and engage in the online world, and those who don't. Very good post. Also ties in with the connected researcher sessions we've done for Fass.
Effective Practice in a Digital Age is designed for those in further and higher education whose focus is on designing and supporting learning: academic staff, lecturers, tutors and learning support staff, facilitators, learning technologists and staff developers, and others with an interest in enhancing the quality of learning and teaching, and a curiosity about how technology can assist them.
UNESCO resource on cultural resources - "The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world."
1. Agitate openly and very publicly about the role higher education is designed to play
2. Collaborate strategically about how to reorganize resources given information and Internet technologies
3. Fix tenure and our aging faculty demographic
4. Fix peer review
5. Incorporate digital and information fluency in every discipline
More back story stuff for digital literacy. Young Jewish girl accused of anti-Semitism when in fact following Jewish tradition. Framing of stories (in this case by right wing bloggers but could be by others) can affect our perception of online (and any) information.
I get tired of articles that say the native immigrant idea is complete nonsense because we didn't wake up one day and discover a new set of people. Pontefract keeps noting that there are differences across ages but no sharp divides. Well? Was technology created on the 8th day and we have BT and AT??