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Magical Techno Powers

This just in - digital natives may not have magical techno powers. Mark Baurlein, Emory University, points to an ETS study conducted with a very large samples of college students demonstrating that web search skills and the critical thinking skills necessary to evaluate the quality of information located through web searches were often not sufficient [...]

Posted 29 January 2008 † § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

You Still Must Think

Perhaps too much has been made of generational difference in the way technology has been used. And, perhaps there is a confusion between comfort level and productivity.
A research study just released concludes:
The first ever virtual longitudinal study carried out by [...]

Posted 18 January 2008 † § Research ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Both sides of the story - an example

This is follow-up to yesterday’s post considering how social networks might more usefully advance general understanding.
Have you been following the NYTimes debate between Rick Cotton and Tim Wu considering copyright in the digital era? I like the debate format (with side reader comments) as one approach that may make productive use of social networks. At [...]

Posted 17 January 2008 † § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Now, maybe it is time to reconsider "Cult of the Amateur”

Back in June, I read “Cult of the Amateur” and made the prediction that this book would set off a heated commentary from some of the visible supporters of educational blogging. The book did not generate the level of response that I expected. Perhaps the individuals I had expected to respond chose to ignore the [...]

Posted 16 January 2008 † § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

What if blogs only tell us what we want to hear?

There is considerable literature one can access that bears on the question of how and if we might benefit from web 2.0 tools (excuse this phrase if it annoys you - this is not about 1.0 vs. 2.0).On one side, there is Cult of the Amateur arguing that shared free knowledge is likely to [...]

Posted 22 October 2007 † § Policy ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged:

Essential Skills for Knowledge Workers

Miguel Guhlin, in an techLearning article (registration may be required for free access), proposes that knowledge workers will need to develop new skills to be competitive in a read/write world. This is an interesting article because of the effort to argue for the development of specific skills (a combination of higher order thinking and design [...]

Posted 01 June 2006 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Graze, Dive, Talk Back

John Palfrey offers a model of how digital natives process the news. The idea is to describe the difference between those of us who get up in the morning and read the Times (or Grand Forks Herald) cover to cover and those of us who go online and take a different approach. I really like [...]

Posted 23 May 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: