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18 Jun 09

Web Literacy for Educators - Google Books

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12 Jun 09

Why Smart People Do Stupid Things | By Kurt Kleiner | Dysrationalia, Why People are Irrational | University of Toronto Magazine

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18 May 09

SpeEdChange: Information Literacy

A fascinating look at the effect of changing technologies and the need for information literacy and critical thinking.

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Yes. Print can be wrong, despite John Calvin's firm belief in the societal value of fixed text. We all know that information on the "internet" can be wrong, and we warn our students about this. If we are good, we tell them to check authorship, credentials, the source of the website, the motivations, and we ask them to find corroboration and/or dissent. But do we do this as actively when a student pulls a book or newspaper off our school library shelf? What about when a student reads a textbook? What about when a student listens to a teacher?
an emerging communication form creates a demand for a new medium or method of publication. The new medium or method of publication, in turn, creates an opportunity for new communication forms. When Samuel Morse introduced the telegraph with "What hath God wrought?" he was using new technology to send an old phrase. But his technology, and the way in which it was paid for, quickly created, "Meet in Phila Tue Noon at Sta Stop" - and how far away are we then from "C U 2nite"
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- All these technologies give and take. Gutenberg's destroyed many European languages, and enforced all sort of evils. But it also spread knowledge and literacy and allowed thought to flow in remarkable ways. We can imagine that post-Gutenberg technologies will do the same.
- So what do students need to know? They need to know that cognitive authority does not come with a job title, or a publisher's mark. Just as they need to know that the actor wearing the white coat in a TV commercial may not be a medical authority. They need to be able to discover, in the non-linear form of real life (and the web) how to assess information - no matter the source. You can start in your classroom. If you aren't lying to your students, give them laptops or mobiles and let them look up what you tell them. True? Sometimes true? Debatable? Biased? Help them make the arguments.

12 Apr 09

Teaching 21st century literacies « Brave new world

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the integration of critical, digital literacies must be integrated fully in everyday teaching,
If we use blogs, wikis or nings, it is not because we are ticking off our use of Web 2.0 technologies for the sake of being recognised as Web 2.0 savvy, it’s because we recognise that a networked learning environment is the best way to prepare our students for their future. If we teach our senior students to critically evaluate newspaper articles and advertisements, shouldn’t we finally take the leap to teaching them the skills they need to navigate the deluge of online information? They’re not reading editorials as much as they’re watching YouTube videos. Will they continue to get their news from newspapers? Or will they prefer real-time, real-people news reports on Twitter?

02 Feb 09

Christopher D. Sessums :: Blog :: Media Literacy Education Heuristic

I really like this media literacy heuristic, especially as it is becoming very clear to me that without the gatekeepers of edited and published books and librarians, it is absolutely necessary that we teach our students this form of critical thinking.

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29 Jan 09

Clive Thompson on How More Info Leads to Less Knowledge

How the 'net, which I love, causes "agnotology. Derived from the Greek root agnosis, it is "the study of culturally constructed ignorance." Why teaching critical thinking is increasingly important.

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agnotology. Derived from the Greek root agnosis, it is "the study of culturally constructed ignorance."
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Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis?

"Learners have changed as a result of their exposure to technology, says Greenfield, who analyzed more than 50 studies on learning and technology, including research on multi-tasking and the use of computers, the Internet and video games." This connects, IMHO, with the Clive Thompson Wired article on "More Info ... Less Knowledge", linked below.

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Another study Greenfield analyzed found that college students who watched "CNN Headline News" with just the news anchor on screen and without the "news crawl" across the bottom of the screen remembered significantly more facts from the televised broadcast than those who watched it with the distraction of the crawling text and with additional stock market and weather information on the screen.

These and other studies show that multi-tasking "prevents people from getting a deeper understanding of information," Greenfield said.
Visual intelligence has been rising globally for 50 years, Greenfield said. In 1942, people's visual performance, as measured by a visual intelligence test known as Raven's Progressive Matrices, went steadily down with age and declined substantially from age 25 to 65. By 1992, there was a much less significant age-related disparity in visual intelligence, Greenfield said.

"In a 1992 study, visual IQ stayed almost flat from age 25 to 65," she said.