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I was recently involved in a conversation about how difficult it now is to filter what is on the internet and research effectively. In the past, students would primarily use books to research; being overloaded with possibly unreliable information wasn’t really an issue.

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A reminder–CS & IT Conference 2012

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The motherlode.  Infographic archive.

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Are you teaching Advanced Placement Computer Science? Are you looking for supplemental exercises that may help you students with the concepts? If so this announcement may be of interest to you. Pex for Fun has been around for a while offering coding duels in C#, F# and Visual Basic. Recently though it was decided to invest some time, money and effort to adapt some exercises specifically to help learn APCS concepts. Most students find the differences between Java and C# pretty minor at this level so most APCS students will find this doable even if they have only been taught Java previously.

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CS 2012 Strawman Draft Comment Period Open

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Connected Learning: Reimagining the Experience of Education in the Information Age

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All of us have used the term “Information Overload”, but is it really that? This book, The Information Diet by Clay Johnson, has a different take on how we use information.

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Google is piloting the display of author information in search results to help users discover great content

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Why “Infographic Thinking” Is The Future, Not A Fad

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Are You Applying for the 2012 US Forum?

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Alison Mackenzie explains how a new project is looking at the role university libraries play in developing digital literacy

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Google Takeout allows you to download a copy of your data stored within Google products.

Security Note: Since Google Takeout involves your personal information, we'll sometimes take extra care to protect you by asking you to verify your password even though you're already signed in

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If you spend any time around students, none of this comes as news. Given a research task, many go straight to Google and grab the first “low-hanging fruit" they find. Their inability to critically evaluate sources or context is more crucial as the barrier to the production and distribution of information has disappeared.

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Social Networking for Information Professionals
“Social networking and participatory library services”

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Liquid Information is about giving you smoother information systems, focusing on how we interact with text.

To this end we have produced the free Liquid Information Add-Ons for Web Browsers (Firefox, Chrome & Safari), Liquid Information for Web Servers and WordPress as well as a Beta for for Windows Desktop.

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"All models are wrong, but some are useful."So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he was right. But what choice did we have? Only models, from cosmological equations to theories of human behavior, seemed to be able to consistently, if imperfectly, explain the world around us. Until now. Today companies like Google, which have grown up in an era of massively abundant data, don't have to settle for wrong models. 

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U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) and Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO) today introduced the Computer Science Education Act, which will help prepare Americans for the more than 1.5 million high-wage computing jobs that are expected to be created in the U.S. by 2018. The bill will help states to increase and strengthen their computer science offerings in K-12 education.

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As part of a dramatic effort to expand its IT offerings to a global audience, Stanford University will be offering three popular 101-level courses free online as part of a global virtual classroom.

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I’m a huge fan of the FIRST organization and their robotics programs at various education levels. So I thought it might be a good idea to pass along this announcement. Most of us know that STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math are cool, fun and exciting. A lot of students don’t know this. The hope is that this special will help show kids, and adults, that what we know is actually real.

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It’s impossible to comprehend complex data or analyze large amounts of information, if we only use words or texts. Information graphics or better known as infographics are visual explanation of data, information or knowledge. These graphics are excellent visual tools for explaining huge amounts of information where complex data needs to be explained immediately and clearly. Let me show you how Rick Mans explain how infographics ease the process of communicating conceptual information

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