Posted on July 10, 2008 by Anne-Marie
I would really like to respond to this call for papers, and since abstracts aren’t due for several weeks I’m using it as a reason to do some reading and re-reading. Right now, it’s A Pedagogy for Liberation, a dialogue between Ira Shor and Paulo Freire. This isn’t the most famous Freire, that’s undoubtedly Pedagogy [...]
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Posted on June 3, 2008 by Anne-Marie
I actually have no idea what the answer to that question is. I already mentioned the essay about the Clash which was about corporate rock, politics, and the reality of growing up in Canby, Oregon.
But there’s also this short movie that the Willamette Valley Film Collective made last year to compete in the International Documentary [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2008 by Anne-Marie
…still thinking about last week’s conversation about the corporate media and what that means for information literacy instruction and the broader idea of library users as informed citizens. A couple of things have come across my screen that seem to fit into this conversation.
First, continuing the theme of cool and awesome visualizations is Muckety, [...]
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Posted on April 14, 2008 by Anne-Marie
was said pretty well yesterday at Daily Kos.
Keen tends to claim that the participatory web is destroying traditional media at great cost to our culture. I’ve always thought that the mainstream media has done a great deal to destroy itself. And I don’t think I can say it better than this:
The media — newspapers, radio, [...]
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Posted on April 11, 2008 by Anne-Marie
This is more of a pointing something out post than an in-depth analysis post. I don’t know that I have much to say about this article in yesterday’s L.A. Times, that Jon Wiener didn’t already say in The Nation yesterday evening. But I can’t stop being bothered by it.
No matter how many times [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by Anne-Marie
Lately I’ve noticed a number of different conversations I’ve been having coalescing around the question of evaluation - how can students evaluate the information they find. Some of the conversations have been versions of your normal standard “information on the web can be bad” and aren’t very interesting, but more of them have been [...]
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