|
Nicholson, P. (2009) Information-rich and attention-poor Globe and Mail, September 12 In one of Canada’s national newspapers, the Globe and Mail, Peter Nicholson, the President of the Council of Canadian Academies (formerly named Academy of Sciences), writes about the impact of new information technology on the nature of knowledge. He makes a number of arguments, among [...] This is also posted as a comment to: Bates and Downes on new knowledge: Round 3 I don’t think Stephen and I are going to agree on the value of academic knowledge. However, I do agree that there is a useful distinction that Stephen makes between groups and networks, although I don’t agree with the necessarily [...] I very much appreciate Stephen Downes’ response to my posting, and I encourage you to read not only his posting, but several other comments on his posting that followed. Some of the points I would otherwise have raised in this posting are discussed in these other posts, so here I just want to focus on where [...] |
 |
|
|
|
Subscribe to the RSS feed
Latest Comments