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Changing the Game
Across the U.S., students are returning to their schools and college campuses. It also appears to be the beginning of a mini-revolution in the way digital media and learning are seen to affect the underlying structure of our educational system. It seems that everyday we are presented with news and commentary pointing to the ways the educational system is not preparing students to meet the challenges of the future.… more
Digital Illiteracy
Besides being a Pulitzer Prize winning film critic, Roger Ebert is a serious reader, and in a recent post on his blog, he blasts a "retelling" of The Great Gatsby that dumbs down the prose of the original novel for "intermediate level readers," thereby robbing them of the full experience of the novel's literary richness. After providing a few comparisons between the original and the new version, Ebert made a claim that jumped out at me:… more
Search Personalization and Digital Literacy
The near total dominance of computer search over our information gathering has presented our culture with an interesting (and possibly unique) problem in the history of information management: what you see when you search for something can be quite different from what I see when I search. This is because search engines (and other recommendation services, like the suggestions at Amazon and Netflix) monitor our behavior and tailor the results we see to their records of our past behavior.… more