Melanie McBride is a Canadian educator, researcher and writer focused on situated emergent learning, transmedia and affinity culture in virtual environments and gaming spaces. See About page for more information.
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The topic
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It's not about "authority" nor should it be
As a long time defender of the open web and open content, buy no prescription Flagyl online, Order Flagyl online overnight delivery no prescription, I wanted to point out that the educational bias towards "authoritative" or "received" sources, though relevant, order Flagyl from United States pharmacy, Buy Flagyl online cod, is also highly political/ideological - especially in relation to emergent sources of knowledge (i.e., Open Content), where can i buy cheapest Flagyl online. Flagyl from canadian pharmacy, Ideological in the contexts of: 1) who has access or control of the means of knowledge power and production 2) who endorses or authorizes those voices and 3) "what" forms are accepted as "valid".
Knowledge power paradigm shifts
The power paradigm shift is not unique to education (see also Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions), buy Flagyl from mexico, Purchase Flagyl online no prescription, it is the source of the crisis in every form of traditional knowledge power - from publishing and media/print news to television and, finally, Flagyl price, coupon, Buy Flagyl no prescription, education - power bases that are currently disintegrating under their inability to evolve from top down to bottom up models (or a healthy blend of both). Things are changing - rapidly, Order Flagyl with No Prescription. And much of the change concerns shifting power bases, Flagyl price, coupon. Buy Flagyl online cod, In my view, it's very simple: adapt or perish (though one can adapt critically and with creativity - adaptation mustn't be confused with unthinking, purchase Flagyl online, Order Flagyl from mexican pharmacy, mindless adoption).
Scaffolding "open" (is the answer)
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Crap detection (doesn't mean dissing the web)
Teachers (and students) alike need to learn a new literacy. The literacy to "detect crap" online - without simply reproducing old power structures (or dissing emergent, democratic knowledge models). And this is where I turn it over to Howard Rheingold who makes sense of the why and how of crap detection with the most seasoned perspective I've seen. From his City Brights blog:
"Unless a great many people learn the basics of online crap detection and begin applying their critical faculties en masse and very soon, I fear for the future of the Internet as a useful source of credible news, medical advice, financial information, educational resources, scholarly and scientific research. Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless, Order Flagyl with No Prescription. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online noise pollution, but the problem is soluble. The good stuff is out there if you know how to find and verify it. Basic information literacy, widely distributed, is the best protection for the knowledge commons: A sufficient portion of critical consumers among the online population can become a strong defense against the noise-death of the Internet. Order Flagyl with No Prescription, ...
The issue of info pollution has been on my mind since at least 1994, when I wrote "The Tragedy of the Electronic Commons" about the infamous Canter and Siegel - the first Internet spammers. A few years later, I personally confronted the importance of teaching information literacy to 14 year olds when I watched my daughter come of age at the same time online search engines became available. I sat down in front of the circa-1999 computer with my daughter and explained that most of the books she could get from the library could be counted on to be factually accurate. But when you enter words into a search engine, there is no guarantee that your search will lead you to accurate information. "You have to do some investigation before you accept anything you find online," I warned her."
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