During the Information Futures Commission’s consultation process we found anthropology lecturer Michael Wesch’s short videos were a terrific way to introduce the topics we were trying to tackle, about how digital technology is changing the scholarly communication process and the way people interact with each other in broader society. I blogged about the videos in […]
Staff at Cornell and Bates (both in the US) are in the early stages of a collaborative project, looking into how they might provide a seamlessly integrated knowledge environment (IKE) for their students, alumni, academic and professional staff, and other constituencies of their respective institutions.
In particular, the project aims to:
“Envision, identify, and promote integrated online […]
Introducing a new research report, the Pew Internet and American Life Project observes that:
“Teens write a lot, but they do not think of their emails, instant and text messages as writing. This disconnect matters because teens believe good writing is an essential skill for success and that more writing instruction at school would help them.”
The […]
Henry Jenkins (MIT) and Howard Gardner (Harvard) are each leading projects investigating how to teach information literacy skills to the current generation of university students.
The New Media Literacies project at MIT takes what we might call an ‘embedded’ approach to teaching information literacy:
“How does digital copying relate to legacy notions of property? What do […]
The Information Futures Commission is running an online survey called Outstanding! (What would that feel like?).
This 15-minute questionnaire asks students, staff and other scholars to describe, in their own words, how they find, use and share scholarly information.
In part, the survey was inspired by Danny Kingsley’s PhD research at the Australian National University. By surveying […]