Social media and education

4 August 2008 – 6:30 am

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 [...]

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Learning new information literacy skills

24 April 2008 – 6:44 am

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 [...]

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More than words

29 March 2008 – 6:10 am

When we talk about scholarly information, it’s easy to assume we mean words, lots of words, published in books and articles.
In fact, the Information Futures Commission is interested in much more than text-based materials.
For example, let’s consider the image as a piece of scholarly information. In this post, I will describe two types of ’scholarly [...]

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