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  • Perspectives: Technology Leadership in the Liberal Arts » Book Futures – Michael Spalti, Willamette University

    blog post on the future of digital books in the library

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    future library ebooks spalti teaching technology on 2009-10-28

    • Our library of fifteen years hence would contain language and multimedia labs, group work spaces, quiet places for study, data analysis and geo-spatial mapping, live and recorded video feeds from around the world, professional staff and faculty offices, academic centers, a state-of-the-art classroom and, of course, a coffee shop on the first floor. 
    • academic books to be distributed and used primarily in digital form
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  • Techne » Help Students Read the Web Critically

    on social bookmarking and web annotating with diigo

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    diigo techne socialnetworking teaching on 2009-10-28 and saved by 6 people

    • It’s like everything I do when I read on paper
    • The clear antecedent for website annotation in paper-based research practices makes it an easy sell for me and those older than me, especially those in academia.
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  • Educom Review

    Information Literacy as a Liberal Art\nold article but interesting ideas

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    information_literacy liberalarts nitle_digital_teaching on 2009-05-19 and saved by 2 people

    • fundamental
    • What does a person need to know today to be a full-fledged, competent and literate member of the information society?
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  • Information Literacy Makes All the Wrong Assumptions - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

    • when we know from research
    • As Roy Tennant noted in the January 1, 2001, Library Journal, "only librarians like to search; everyone else likes to find." Any educational philosophy is doomed to failure if it views students as information seekers in need of information-seeking training
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  • A Personal Cyberinfrastructure (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE

    • without their having to learn the dreaded alphabet soup of HTML, FTP, and CSS. As far as faculty were concerned, the only letters they needed to know were L-M-S.
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    • In short, students would build a personal cyberinfrastructure, one they would continue to modify and extend throughout their college career — and beyond.
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  • Wake Up and Smell the New Epistemology - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

    • One of my students put it this way: "It is imperative that someone studying this generation realize that we have the world at our fingertips — and the world has been at our fingertips for our entire lives. I think this access to information seriously undermines this generation's view of authority, especially traditional scholastic authority."
    • Specifically, we must respect students as thinkers, even though their thinking skills may be undeveloped and their knowledge base shallow.
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  • Blog U.: The New Literacy and the CMS - Technology and Learning - Inside Higher Ed

    • What we want, I think, is our students to practice joining and contributing to the larger conversation.
    • The idea that the new literacy involves writing for a Web audience is supported by a Stanford study by Professor Andrea Lunsford. (Thanks again Stephen Downes for the pointer).
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