The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Groofer Social Search, Bookmarking and Reader Groofer makes finding and sharing online information easier. Instead of having to visit multiple web sites, Groofer let’s you and your team share search results and links directly from your browser so that they can be discussed and archived as needed. You can also subscribe to, read and discuss …
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Media Literacy and the Challenge of New Information and Communication Technologies SONIA LIVINGSTONE The Communication Review Volume 7, Issue 1, 2004, pages 3-14 “The article begins with a definition: media literacy is the ability to access, analyse, evaluate and create messages across a variety of contexts. This four-component model is then examined for its applicability …
Ten popular concept mapping tools by Chris Clark NspiredD2, 11 May 2011 I was taken to task yesterday for limiting the list of software recommended in Best tools and practices for concept mapping. This morning I did some research and came up with a credible list of the ten most-recommended tools for mind mapping and …
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VIDEO (1:03) The Information Diet – Introduction Introduction to the concepts behind The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption, a new book by Clay Johnson. The Information Diet makes the case that it’s time we started being as selective with the information we consume as we are the food that we eat, then describes …
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PersonalBrain Webinar : February 15, 2012, 11 AM -12:00 PM Pacific, 2:00 – 3:00 PM Eastern Webinar FREE Online We’re all connected to a vast sea of information: twitter, email, news and social networking sites, blogs and corporate portals …But with all this information at our fingertips it begs the question: are we getting smarter …
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Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room David Weinberger Released 3 January 2012 Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive Surplus “Too Big To Know is Weinberger’s brilliant synthesis of myriad little debates—information overload, …
Is There a Difference Between Critical Thinking and Information Literacy? John M Weiner Abstract This paper investigates the similarities and differences between two important ideas in information processing and knowledge utilisation. Those ideas are [critical thinking] and [information literacy]. The two phrases are shown in brackets to indicate that the two words involved in each …
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