Comments on: The New Nature Of Information http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2006/09/25/the-new-nature-of-information/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:37:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Alexander Hayes http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2006/09/25/the-new-nature-of-information/comment-page-1/#comment-3201 Alexander Hayes Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:29:57 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2006/09/25/the-new-nature-of-information/#comment-3201 Hmmmm....something up with my way of feeding back into this architecture. Beautifully put Graham. You have summed up for me why we are so bent on using differing forms of media to speak those thousand words. Hmmmm….something up with my way of feeding back into this architecture.

Beautifully put Graham. You have summed up for me why we are so bent on using differing forms of media to speak those thousand words.

]]> By: Alexander Hayes http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2006/09/25/the-new-nature-of-information/comment-page-1/#comment-3200 Alexander Hayes Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:28:19 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2006/09/25/the-new-nature-of-information/#comment-3200 > After all, when you are reading text, it takes a lot of skill to express opinion clearly and coherently in the Web 2.0 world. > After all, when you are reading text, it takes a lot of skill to express opinion clearly and coherently in the Web 2.0 world.

]]> By: Doug Noon http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2006/09/25/the-new-nature-of-information/comment-page-1/#comment-3196 Doug Noon Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:20:15 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2006/09/25/the-new-nature-of-information/#comment-3196 When we have all the answers, the fun will be over. Thanks for this stimulating post. You've given me some new ideas to chew on. When we have all the answers, the fun will be over. Thanks for this stimulating post. You’ve given me some new ideas to chew on.

]]> By: Graham http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2006/09/25/the-new-nature-of-information/comment-page-1/#comment-3195 Graham Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:00:09 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2006/09/25/the-new-nature-of-information/#comment-3195 Thanks for your thoughts here Doug. I guess I've been using the term "Global Conversation" somewhat liberally when I am mainly referring to the way educators are connecting and exchanging ideas and building on their own learning via the web. I guess I just feel that teachers do need to come to grips with and have a working knowledge of the new flatter media and information landscape - if students don't gain some big picture skills from school, how else will they gain them? I guess it is our grounding (you, me, other teachers of "digital immigrant" status) in traditional ways of media that allows us to adapt and look for big picture issues to discuss and muse about - can our students pick these or are they all in danger of being stranded in a me-centred world? More questions than answers, Doug! Thanks for your thoughts here Doug. I guess I’ve been using the term “Global Conversation” somewhat liberally when I am mainly referring to the way educators are connecting and exchanging ideas and building on their own learning via the web. I guess I just feel that teachers do need to come to grips with and have a working knowledge of the new flatter media and information landscape – if students don’t gain some big picture skills from school, how else will they gain them? I guess it is our grounding (you, me, other teachers of “digital immigrant” status) in traditional ways of media that allows us to adapt and look for big picture issues to discuss and muse about – can our students pick these or are they all in danger of being stranded in a me-centred world? More questions than answers, Doug!

]]> By: Doug Noon http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2006/09/25/the-new-nature-of-information/comment-page-1/#comment-3187 Doug Noon Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:12:09 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2006/09/25/the-new-nature-of-information/#comment-3187 The global conversation that you mentioned has been going on since mass media (newspapers, radio, TV....) have been around. One of the reasons many of my students don't know about big-picture things is that they don't read or listen to the news, and neither do their parents. So it seems like they don't know "what's going on." They appear to understand almost nothing of their world. It's mind boggling to me that some of my students in fourth grade don't know what country they live in! Being in Alaska, this may be understandable on some level, but it's no excuse. But then, playing the devil's advocate, I wonder. Is there some-<em>thing</em> going on? There's many things, it seems, with some people telling the rest that they're missing the main event. It's getting complicated now with the internet letting everyone have a voice. But still, some voices are louder than others. If this new media is democratizing information, where do we draw the line on what people need to know? The global conversation that you mentioned has been going on since mass media (newspapers, radio, TV….) have been around. One of the reasons many of my students don’t know about big-picture things is that they don’t read or listen to the news, and neither do their parents. So it seems like they don’t know “what’s going on.” They appear to understand almost nothing of their world. It’s mind boggling to me that some of my students in fourth grade don’t know what country they live in! Being in Alaska, this may be understandable on some level, but it’s no excuse.

But then, playing the devil’s advocate, I wonder. Is there some-thing going on? There’s many things, it seems, with some people telling the rest that they’re missing the main event. It’s getting complicated now with the internet letting everyone have a voice. But still, some voices are louder than others. If this new media is democratizing information, where do we draw the line on what people need to know?

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