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Me & IT: A History | Ancora Imparo
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I am still learning. Michaelangelo, age 87. Everyday Advocacy Elevator Speech. August 24, 2014. Me and IT: A History. I am a digital immigrant. But I immigrated fairly early for one of my generation. Fortran punch card, late ’60s or early ’70s. Image by Arnold Reinhold, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. My mother had to have a computer at home for her profession. Our family’s first home computer arrived in 1981 — at a time when 9.24 American households out of 1,000 had a computer. Most of my computer learni...
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Shifting Paradigms of Knowledge, or a Defense of Wikipedia as a Pedagogical Tool – What is the Book?
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What is the Book? Musings about Theological Libraries and the Book(s) Inside Them. Shifting Paradigms of Knowledge, or a Defense of Wikipedia as a Pedagogical Tool. As librarians, it is almost second nature for us to devalue Wikipedia. Frequently we remind students that Wikipedia is not a tool for research. We harp on students not to cite Wikipedia. In their academic work. We cite famous examples. Or who is to say that he’s telling me what actually happened and not his idiosyncratic take on things? A sec...
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Shifting Paradigms of Knowledge, or a Defense of Wikipedia as a Pedagogical Tool – What is the Book?
https://whatisthebook.com/2014/08/28/shifting-paradigms-of-knowledge-or-a-defense-of-wikipedia-as-a-pedagogical-tool
What is the Book? Musings about Theological Libraries and the Book(s) Inside Them. Shifting Paradigms of Knowledge, or a Defense of Wikipedia as a Pedagogical Tool. As librarians, it is almost second nature for us to devalue Wikipedia. Frequently we remind students that Wikipedia is not a tool for research. We harp on students not to cite Wikipedia. In their academic work. We cite famous examples. Or who is to say that he’s telling me what actually happened and not his idiosyncratic take on things? A sec...