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28 Oct 12
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this ancient wisdom might be officially outdated
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Today's youth live in a networked world where they pass by information on a regular basis
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While motivated teens can certainly seek out information through all sorts of media channels, much of what they know is through osmosis
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School is fundamentally a push technology.
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information is a form of currency
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On the flipside, there is pull media. This is content that individuals actively seek. Again, networked culture has drastically altered this process.
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Today's youth have information at their fingertips, but they are constantly being told that this information is inherently flawed and that they should not use it.
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. In fact, it's an ideal site for learning how to interpret information
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This is a personal pet peeve of mine because if educators would shift their thinking about Wikipedia, so much critical thinking could take place. The key value of Wikipedia is its transparency. You can understand how a page is constructed, who is invested, what their other investments are. You can see when people disagree about content and how, in the discussion, the disagreement was resolved. None of our traditional print media makes such information available.
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1) Understand the assembly of data and information into publications
2) Interpret knowledge
3) Question purported truths and vet sources
4) Analyze apparent contradictions in facts
5) Productively contribute to the large body of collective knowledge
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they are completely media illiterate
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. Unless you're a marketer seeking to capitalize on youth's naiveté, this should worry you.
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Christopher Allen"At the most simplistic level, information is acquired in three ways: push, pull, and osmosis. "
danahboyd information access network socialnetworks culture push pull osmosis academic article
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10 Dec 07
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"The information culture today is about producing, finding, and sharing... not just consuming. Rather than demonizing new technologies as non-education, imagine what would happen if we helped youth learn in this new networked information environment."
education technology networks sociology wikipedia learning papers via:jlesage
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09 Dec 07
Julia LesageDanah Boyd on the kind of information world youth live in vs. the informational delivery of formal education. Teaching Wikipedia, with an example of the different ways the US and UK versions of Wikipedia treat the American Revolution.
academic culture danahboyd education Internet learning socialnetworking teen theory users usability pedagogy
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Katie Dayboyd, danah. 2007. Talk presented to Pearson Publishing, Palo Alto, California, November 2. Discusses how kids get information -- by osmosis, push, and/or pull. Also good rap about the value of Wikipedia as a teaching tool.
teaching information_literacy social_software information push_pull imported_from_delicious
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Howard RheingoldYouth are growing up in a society shaped strongly by networks. Networks of information, networks of people, networks of objects
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At the most simplistic level, information is acquired in three ways: push, pull, and osmosis.
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Last spring, when I asked teens who was running for President, they were all able to rattle off at least Hillary and Barack. (We will ignore the fact that they often said "that woman" and "that black guy.") How they knew this is a bit of a puzzle. They didn't read the newspaper, they didn't watch TV news, they didn't listen to news on radio, and they didn't go to news websites. What's left? Osmosis!
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Media-driven osmosis is not new, but the level of saturation is definitely greater than before. This introduces more opportunities to get "drive by" information. It's hard not to know certain things, but it's easy to know little in depth. News and information that is more than a soundbyte is not really part of the culture of osmosis.
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School is fundamentally a push technology. Youth are required by law to show up and teachers are employed to push information at students in the hopes that they soak some of it up. Parents, teachers, and other well-intentioned adults regularly push information at youth as they have for decades. Youth's willingness to consume this content is heavily influenced by issues of trust and respect for the pusher. The less respect, the more likely the information is to go in one ear and out the other.
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youth's access to certain types of information is increasingly framed by their networks. When I ask teens how they found out about a particular video or website or many other things, the answer is pretty universal: "my friends."
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Understanding Wikipedia means knowing how to:
1) Understand the assembly of data and information into publications
2) Interpret knowledge
3) Question purported truths and vet sources
4) Analyze apparent contradictions in facts
5) Productively contribute to the large body of collective knowledge -
because parents and teachers are invested in vetting information and discouraging all other information access, we are failing to teach our youth how to evaluate, interpret, and assess the information that they pull or that which falls out of the sky. In other words, they are completely media illiterate.
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The information culture today is about producing, finding, and sharing... not just consuming. Rather than demonizing new technologies as non-education, imagine what would happen if we helped youth learn in this new networked information environment. We are lucky to be living in an information-rich society. It's high time that we let go of our nostalgia and embrace this.
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