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22 Aug 07

Most teen hackers more curious than criminal - USATODAY.com

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digital natives piracy

curiosity and a hunger for excitement
realize what's going on
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- illegal an
- They cause a lot of financial loss for companies and school districts
- channel techno-gifted teens into positive paths.

06 Aug 07

Credibility - Digital Learning

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credibility digital information natives quality

more information available to more people from more sources than at any time in human history.
inconceivably vast information repositories
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- increasingly portable, accessible, and interactive in both delivery and formation
- exist incredible opportunities for learning, social connection, and individual entertainment and enhancement in a wide variety of forms.
- origin of information, its quality, and its veracity are in many cases less clear than ever before
- unparalleled burden on individuals to locate appropriate information and assess its meaning and relevance
- wide scale access
- multiplicity of sources
- Assessing credibility inaccurately
- can have serious social, personal, educational, relational, health, and financial consequences
- supportive policies
- on equipping users and intermediary institutions such as schools and libraries to find the information they need.
- many domains of speech, attention could more effectively be paid to examining and developing supportive policie

The word on Wikipedia: Trust but verify - Nightly News with Brian Williams - MSNBC.com

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diital natives quality wikipedia

A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as a Research Source - New York Times

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digital information natives quality wikipedia

Jesuits supported the Shimabara Rebellion in 17th-century Japan
Japanese history class at Middlebury College
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- information was from Wikipedia
- citing Wikipedia as a source in their papers
- high school teachers had allowed the practice
- could not “point to Wikipedia or any similar source that may appear in the future to escape the consequences of errors
- hundreds of volunteers and subject to mistakes and sometimes deliberate falsehoods
- not banned its use
- students shouldn’t be citing encyclopedias. I would hope they wouldn’t be citing Encyclopaedia Britannica, either.
- Google searches on such diverse subjects as historical figures like Confucius and concepts like torture give the Wikipedia entry the first listing
- common for professors to assign students to create work that appears on Wikipedia
- students said that creating an encyclopedia taught them discipline in writing and put them in contact with experts who improved their work and whom, in some cases, they were later able to interview
- Chandler Koglmeier that accused the history department of introducing “the beginnings of censorship.”
- understand that Wikipedia is not a responsible source, that it hasn’t been thoroughly vetted.” Yet he said, “I personally use it all the time.”
- Other students call the move unnecessary.
- is that ultimately they see it as a threat to traditional knowledge,
- What does that mean for traditional scholarship? Does traditional scholarship lose value?
- I guess I am not terribly impressed by anyone citing an encyclopedia as a reference point, but I am not against using it as a starting point.
- still credited as supporting the Shimabara Rebellion

Fixing Typos by Web Users, Without Raising Hackles - New York Times

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digital dns natives quality

not about DNS, which is a 30-year-old technology,” he said. “We’re really about allowing people to find the information they’re looking for.”

31 Jul 07

New Scrutiny for Facebook Over Predators - New York Times

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digital facebook natives negative quality

subjected to the same accusations that it does not do enough to keep sexual predators off its site
sex offenders who had registered on Facebook and had “also found inappropriate images and content
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- accountable, and we intend to do so.”
- redators used the service to contact and arrange improper meetings with minors
- criminal charges against the offenders, and civil suits against MySpace
- has positioned itself as the safe social-networking alternative.
- restricting online communication to users at the same school.
- site opened to the general public
- Facebook’s younger users are vulnerable to sexual solicitations from older users
- Like what u see?” wrote another man from Mississippi, whose profile picture featured him sitting naked on his couch.

Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops - New York Times

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digital labtops narratives natives schools

that a quarter of the 1,000 respondents already had one-to-one computing, and fully half expected to by 2011.
Districts have dropped laptop programs after resistance from teachers, logistical and technical problems, and escalating maintenance costs.
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- how technology is often embraced by philanthropists and political leaders as a quick fix, only to leave teachers flummoxed about how best to integrate the new gadgets into curriculums.

27 Jul 07

Joris van Hoboken » Blog Archive » Search engine quality

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digital information natives quality

to evaluate search results
personalization is very important
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- it’s not necessarily what you said you are looking for it,

26 Jul 07

Gawker's Snarky Success

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digital information natives promises quality

The hazard, in Consumerist's case, is that so much accurate information creates an environment of credibility and consequent trust. In this, it should assume a higher level of responsibility
in online media, content is king.

25 Jul 07

Children of the net: an empirical exploration into the evaluation of Internet content. Industry & Business Article - Research, News, Information, Contacts, Divisions, Subsidiaries, Business Associations

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content digital evaluation information natives overload quality

information credibility
no government or ethical regulations controlling the majority of its available content, credible online sources are hard to distinguish from less credible sources
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- keyword searches
- filtering software can help eliminate unwanted indecent content
- identify irrelevant and dishonest content.
- t should be greater among young users
- less knowledgeable about the real world than are adults
- by comparing the information to their own experiences.
- how multiple information objects are processed inside a mediated environment
- a person's ability to process information is limited
- face an even greater challenge when it comes to evaluating information.
- Developmental differences
- decreased cognitive capacity to manage multiple information objects
- attend to how people look and base their evaluations on those attributes
- young children have difficulty identifying the central, or most important, content in televised programs and instead focus on the story's peripheral but perceptually interesting elements
- both real-world and televised stimuli,
- more demanding environment
- relationships among Web pages and need to continually assess the relevance of information to their initial search goals
- feature both content and advertisements simultaneously (
- do not recognize that some information posted on the Web might be incorrect and should be questioned
- they found online and did not question the source or the accuracy of the information
- great deal of Web experience critically evaluate online information
- only mention cognitive authority
- equate information quality with information quantity.

24 Jul 07

The Social Life of Information

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digital information natives quality

when the lack of information appeared to be one of society's fundamental problems.
making decisions in conditions of limited or imperfect information
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- shortages threatened work, education, research, innovation, and economic decision making
- about access to information has given way to concern about coping with the amounts to which we do have access.
- Where once there seemed too little to swim in, now it's hard to stay afloat
- Few people really want to abandon information technology.
- been wonderfully successful in many ways.
- Information is still the tool for all tasks.

Cybercreeps Run Amok

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digital information natives post quality washington

Internet Libertarians Should Learn Civil Discourse
are doing what the Founding Surfers intended: expressing themselves and forming communities.
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- politics, so much lower than in the material world?
- In cyberspace you don't have to get along with people who are different.
- This makes cyberspace communities far touchier about defending their spheres and their interests.
- hen a guerrilla attack in the middle of the night flooded the site with pornography and we had to take it down.
- community" on the Web usually consists of various ways that surfers can share their views.
- "Information wants to be free" may once have carried the poetic image of liberating information. All it is now is a silly rationale for ripping other people off

Refugee tribunal hit for relying on Wikipedia | NEWS.com.au

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digital information natives quality

used unreliable information
refused an Iranian national's application for a protection visa
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- Wikipedia website, www.armeniapedia.org

French Court Finds DailyMotion Liable For Copyright Infringement | Citizen Media Law Project

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court digital french intermediaries liability natives

liable for copyright infringement, despite concluding that the site was a mere "hosting service."
At the end of the day, the French court ruling has no direct effect on any U.S. court's interpretation of the DMCA, but it may cause Google to reassess its stance on its liability via YouTube

19 Jul 07

Healia - health search engine

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digital engine healia health information natives quality search

Net Neutrality: This is serious | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs

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digital information law natives net neutrality quality

If I pay to connect to the Net with
a certain quality of service, and you pay to connect with that
or greater quality of service, then we can communicate at that level.
make sure they interoperate
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- There have been suggestions that we don't need legislation because
  we haven't had it. These are nonsense, because in fact we have had
  net neutrality in the past -- it is only recently that real explicit
  threats have occurred.
- Control of information is hugely powerful.
- what I can access for commercial reasons
- regulation to keep the Internet open is regulation
- basic values have to be preserved.
- run by the misguided short-term interested of large corporations.

18 Jul 07

Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community

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digital donath identity judith natives

identity deception
how identity is established in an online community

The WELL: David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous

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data digital information meta natives overload quality weinberger

enabled us to flourish rather than drown in the age of information
overload.
Also, it hurts.
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- _potential_ for finding and arranging
  ideas, information and works along whatever lines of likeness we want.
- all examples of us pulling together information
  in unanticipated ways,
- faceted
  classification,
- put together pieces without first requiring that those pieces be
  carefully categorized by experts.
- enabling users to filter on the way out.
- find, re-find and understand in ways that reflect their
  particular project, interests and context
- information about information.
- Taxonomy:
- Ontology:
- Folksonomy:
- rises bottom up by people
  tagging socially.

17 Jul 07

Pew Internet: Content Creation Online -- Report

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2.0 content creation creativity digital natives web

44% of U.S. Internet users have contributed their thoughts and their files to the online world
used the Internet to publish their thoughts, respond to others, post pictures, share files and otherwise contribute to the explosion of content available online
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- Power Creators, Older creators and Content Omnivores.
- They are young – their average age is 25 – and they are more likely than other kinds of creators do things like use instant messaging, play games, and download music. And they are the most likely group to be blogging.