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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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"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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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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Infographics can change the way we learn, the way we see information put in front of us.  They help us digest that information and leads us to draw important conclusions more swiftly.

After doing a little research online I was able to discover 10 gorgeous infographics on education that do more than simply show information, they relay it in a really potent and amazing way.

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The New Zealand Association for Computing, Digital Information Technology Teachers is a new association created to advocate for our subject. The aim of the association is to create a warm, friendly community of teachers where we can share resources and speak with one voice to get our subject area recognised and supported.

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information aesthetics.Where form follows data.

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Check out what Google is up to next.

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BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, is sharing the stories of five Information Pioneers who truly enabled the information society.

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