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Member since Mar 27, 2008, follows 10 people, 4 public groups, 33 public bookmarks (33 total).

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  • Digital Copyright Slider on 2009-11-03
  • As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History - NYTimes.com on 2009-09-29
    • “In five years, I think the majority of students will be using digital textbooks,” said William M. Habermehl, superintendent of the 500,000-student Orange County schools. “They can be better than traditional textbooks.”
  • Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy. - By Chris Wilson - Slate Magazine on 2009-09-29
    • Another compelling model comes from Helium.com, a Wikipedia-like repository of articles and editorials. Its founder, Silicon Valley veteran Mark Ranalli, compares his site to a capitalist version of Wikipedia. On Helium, contributors compete to have the top-ranked article on a given subject. As soon as you write an article, you're invited to pick your favorite of two articles on a similar subject. Requiring someone to write before he or she rates creates a more stable system: Rather than create a caste of creators and a caste of peons, Helium encourages everyone to do everything.
  • Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy. - By Chris Wilson - Slate Magazine on 2009-09-29
    • The same undemocratic underpinnings of Web 2.0 are on display at Digg.com. Digg is a social-bookmarking hub where people submit stories and rate others' submissions; the most popular links gravitate to the site's front page.
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        Ben Rimes on 2009-09-29

        Interesting that the word "undemocratic" be used for the discription of the Web 2.0 underbelly. While true, the whiz-bang magic of scripts, bots, and other technological "gatekeepers" are constantly altering what flesh and blood individuals have contributed, the programs meant to serve as custodians are themselves written by humans. The tools that we choose to employ do not make the process of web 2.0 any more undemocratic, rather just that much easier to engage and maintain as relevant.

        The term democracy itself is difficult to define narrowly (http://www.democracy-building.info/definition-democracy.html). There is no clear determination of how a democracy should be run, but rather a system of democratic beliefs, values, and fundamental rights. Provided that any system meets the needs of a democratic group's values and freedoms (liberties), then one could argue that it is indeed a full fledged democracy. There is more importance on the groups' rules and processes possessing a quality of fluidity and malleability in order to meet a changing environment.

    • at Digg.com. Digg is a social-bookmarking hub where people submit stories and rate others' submissions; the most popular links gravitate to the site's front page.
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  • Study: Wikipedia as accurate as Britannica - CNET News on 2009-09-29
    • In response to situations like these and others in its history, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has always maintained that the service and its community are built around a self-policing and self-cleaning nature that is supposed to ensure its articles are accurate.
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        Ben Rimes on 2009-09-29

        Both Wikipedia and Britannica are written by a panel of experts. Since Wikipedia has a much larger panel of authors, it stands to reason that it would have a slightly higher rate of error. However, the information put forth on Wikipedia, vandalism aside, is generally more trusted by certain groups of individuals because the belief that those contributing are doing so out aof a greater good, and not just for the money that Britannica offers.

  • Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE on 2009-09-15
  • 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning on 2009-09-15
  • The Future of Less: How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education on 2009-09-15
    • If you want to perform a proper string quartet, they noted, you can't cut out the cellist nor can you squeeze in more performances by playing the music faster. But that was then -- before MP3s and iPods proved just how freely music could flow. Before Google scanned and digitized 7 million books and Wikipedia users created the world's largest encyclopedia. Before YouTube Edu and iTunes U made video and audio lectures by the best professors in the country available for free, and before college students built Facebook into the world's largest social network, changing the way we all share information. Suddenly, it is possible to imagine a new model of education using online resources to serve more students, more cheaply than ever before.
    • He has also offered five of his courses to anyone on the Web for free; he donates his own time to review nonenrolled students' work, awarding a signed certificate in lieu of course credit. Wiley's most recent open course was formatted as an online role-playing game, with students divided into "guilds" completing "quests" -- a learning community inspired by the world of online gamers. "If you didn't need human interaction and someone to answer your questions, then the library would never have evolved into the university," Wiley says. "We all realize that content is just the first step."
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  • Pective - The Actual Size of Stuff on 2009-09-03
  • Down for everyone or just me? on 2009-08-27

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