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Tuesday, February 13, 2007
How Choice, Co-Creation, and Culture Are Changing What It Means to Be Net Savvy - George Lorenzo, Diana Oblinger, Charles Dziuban, EDUCAUSE Quarterly
The vast amount of readily available information is just one reason for transforming the way we conduct research and acquire knowledge. The nature of information itself has changed. In text and other formats, information is not just created by experts—it is created and co-created by amateurs. We can select what information to receive (via RSS, for example), and it comes to us—we don't have to seek it out. More than ever before, we can choose what, when, and where to use information. With all these choices, do we really know what we are doing, whether the information is valid, or how best to use it?
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