Guest bloggers argue that there’s enough information online to give anyone a Ph.D. in “any subject they choose”.

Educators can do this by creating an intelligent layer on the “Web” of information, using sources that are most useful for their course, and creating a virtual binder of materials through a wiki or other tools. Perhaps the most useful element would be annotating Web pages. By annotating Web pages, teachers could say how they agree or disagree with the argument, refer (and link) to other sources from within that annotation, and even summarize the discussion in a few lines. Students could interact with the faculty by posing questions, or making comments. This annotated, commented binder could be used by other teachers around the Web.

Dosynt anyone?

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I'm spending all my time right now thinking about how curling up, engaging and absorbing will impact storytelling and education.&

How should a course on World War II history be presented on a tablet?

I know the feeling ..&

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Does your nonprofit do content curation as part of its content strategy? Content curation is the organizing, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and sharing the very best pieces of content that you’ve cherry picked and shared with your network.

Good reminders of the basics of curation versus just using it as a content generator.

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Last week Facebook made history. After collecting data about its users for years, Facebook turned to designer Nicholas Felton who decided it was time to take that data to the next level and visualize it — and the Timeline was born. But what about what’s going on with the rest of the world, and not just my friends… why doesn’t Facebook have timelines for that? What was once a simple exercise of scanning one or two newspapers a day for interesting headlines and articles has escalated into repetitive scans throughout the day of multiple online news sources (Facebook feed, tweets, RSS feeds, online newspapers and blogs). And in many cases, different sources merely repeat the same story over and over again, making the apparent abundance of options misleading. So while more choice is often better, here it is simply overloading us.

Is this just curation in an infographic world, renamed Timelines?

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Another site has popped up called “My Name Is Me” where people vocalize their support for pseudonyms. What’s most striking is the list of people who are affected by “real names” policies, including abuse survivors, activists, LGBT people, women, and young people.

Psuedonyms are moving towards broad social acceptance. Young adults who become active online under a pseudonym may eventually want to include that identity on a job application, so that they can profile the content they have produced. Will educators accept pseudonyms for classroom projects? ... just another transforming social norm brought on by the web.

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Parts of it certainly seem to appear similar to what we’ve seen before. One significant component is a continuous scroll called “the stream” that’s an alternative to Facebook’s news feed — a hub of personalized content. It has a companion called “Sparks,” related to one’s specified interests. Together they are designed to be a primary attention-suck of Google users. Google hopes that eventually people will gravitate to the stream in the same way that members...

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Our plan is to develop new projects and work on solving big problems aligned along a simple mission statement: The Obvious Corporation develops systems that help people work together to improve the world. This is a dream come true!

It's a good gig if you can get it ...

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A discussion and definiton of the systems behind the future of books, publishing and reading.

The future book — the digital book — is no longer an immutable brick. It's ethereal and networked, emerging publicly in fits and starts. An artifact ‘complete’ for only the briefest of moments. Shifting deliberately. Layered with our shared marginalia. And demanding engagement with the promise of community implicit in its form

Curation meets publishing meets community

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I cannot imagine the future, but I care about it. I know I am a part of a story that starts long before I can remember and continues long beyond when anyone will remember me. I sense that I am alive at a time of important change, and I feel a responsibility to make sure that the change comes out well. I plant my acorns knowing that I will never live to harvest the oaks.

When I first heard about the Millenium Clock (16 years ago!), I couldn't get it out of my mind. I could not conceive of such long view thinking ... but it stuck with me.

I am so happy to include this update into this curated list on Bumpzee! I hope to keep posting updates for many years to come.

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Brewster decided that he should keep a copy of every book they scan so that somewhere in the world there was at least one physical copy to represent the millions of digital copies. That safeguarded random book would become the type specimen of that work. If anyone ever wondered if the digital book's text had become corrupted or altered, they could refer back to the physical type that was archived somewhere safe.

Some time in the future, Brewster Kahle will be looked upon as a hero, a Benjamin Franklin type of historical figure.

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Do you know this man? The folks at Lost Films hope that you do and that you can identify the name of the film from which the still was taken. Archivists know it's a German film, and they believe it was made in the 1930s. And they're asking for anyone with more information to help....

This is the type of valuable, long term view that I get excited about. Curation must contain a sense of preservation, and make it an obligation to annotate original sources and contributors. Crowd sourcing to identify these content elements is genius.

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Without saying it .. He makes a very strong case for the importance of curators in our future. A skilled curator will expose and present a wide variety of content from diverse perspectives.

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The U.S. government's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace addresses key issues around identity, privacy and security. Implementation, however, will require significant effort and innovation from the private sector.

This is such a large and complex issue, that when you think about it .. It's the one thing we cannot afford to screw up.

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Hirsch jokes that in 10 years, we may very well look back and laugh that we ever had to type something into Google to find what we were looking for. “Smarter” and “more useful” are two terms he uses to describe how the targeted curation will affect your web experience.

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What this effectively does is finally dissolve the artifically imposed borders between "white hat" and "black hat" SEO again. Rather than solely exploiting the quirks and weak spots of automated ranking algorithms, this approach will produce web sites that even highly qualified human search engine editors won't find fault with.

I get so conflicted by these types of articles. I am intrigued by how intelligent sophisticated the thought process is, and then I think about the pollution of the greatest tool ever invented. Imagine what it would be like if we worked towards making things better for everyone as a whole.

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as unemployment hovers around double digits, the cost of universities soars and kids graduate and move back home with their parents, the once-heretical question of whether education is worth the exorbitant price has started to be re-examined

Something to really think about

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Thirty-five years ago this month, a couple of geeky young members of Silicon Valley's Homebrew Computer Club founded a company to sell a new type of device--which almost nobody had heard of yet--known as a personal computer.

We've come a long way baby. The ad copy has great details ..

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Each new technology turns its predecessor into an art form.

Some good stuff, needs to be given some time to be absorbed

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The Horizon Report is an annual publication of the trends and technological expectations for K-12 education. It is published by the New Media Consortium and is

It is fair to say that education systems globally are now entering a new state of rapid change as they try to establish how and what this technology will do to the existing education paradigms.

Yup

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Let's flip the traditional classroom ...

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Yeah!

Chasing users, not algorithms, will have the best long-term influence on a site’s rankings.

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Just last night I was thinking how a curation platform would make a great textbook / teaching platform. That it could be the evolution of the textbook through aggregation and curation.

Even though they are a small part of the market now - just 3% - digital textbooks are on track to surpass 25% by 2015.

But Inkling founder and CEO Matt MacInnis says that price isn't the only factor that will win over student consumers. Instead, he believes that Inkling can offer a superior learning experience over other textbook formats. And no doubt, Inkling has re-imagined how a textbook should work and done so with the iPad (ok, tablet... but really, iPad) experience in mind.

Interestingly, Inkling hasn't approached the textbook with any sort of reverence or commitment to that print-bound form. Bringing textbooks to the Inkling platform is an "engineering problem," according to MacInnis, not a publishing problem. And that's likely why the platform takes a very different approach to the textbook that simply uploading an electronic version of the text.

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TED Talks MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn.

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As the Guiness guys once said .. Brilliant!

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I am all for good use of QR codes (even had t-shirts made with one) ... But do I really need to have my cereal box send me to a marketing video? We can do better than that ..

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Last week, a survey of 8,000 small businesses about the adoption of various small business marketing products showed that more small businesses are using Facebook than Google when promoting their own businesses.

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Understanding and utilizing content curation is important for brands. How do you improve your chances of getting seen, and of engaging with your fans?

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Every 3-4 years, there's a big shift or addition to the key metrics Google (and, to a lesser extent MSN/Bing and Yahoo!) uses to order competitive search results. 1996-1999: On-page keyword usage + meta data 1999 - 2002: PageRank + On-page 2002 - 2005: Anchor text + Domain name + PageRank + On-Page 2005 - 200...

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In this White House White Board, Austan Goolsbee, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, explains the National Wireless Initiative, which will help America win the future by building a 21st Century infrastructure.

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Do Over!

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Create good content and stay the course ..

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Timely ..

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Maybe ... Like many do, I post my videos to YouTube then link to it within Facebook. YouYube gets the credit from Comscore (and the bandwidth bill) ... So the real questions is "Where is it consumed?".

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Been talking to my wife quite a bit about how hard it is for REI (employer) to manage social campaigns from HQ without local insights. Maybe this platform is a solution

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