Dear blogging world, I’m back!
All of my blogs this week are from…you guessed it, Weblogg-ed!
The first one I picked was entitled, “Quote of the Day: New Knowledge“
I had no clue what the heck this quote meant at first, and Will Richardson’s reflection on it wasn’t enough for me to pick up on it. So, I went through all the comments and finally formed some inkling of what it might mean.
Oh, the quote is right here by the way:
Published knowledge is old knowledge: The art of intelligence in the 21st Century will be less concerned with integrating old knowledge and more concerned with using published knowledge as a path to exactly the right source or sources that can create new knowledge tailored to a new situation, in real time.”
So, one of the comments talked about using older, published knowledge as a means to collaborate with others to create new knowledge. That makes a lot more sense, I wish the author of this quote would’ve just written that. I like the quote because it shows the art of collaboration. This kind of use of published knowledge happens all the time when people write research papers and things like that, but it helps even more when people share their work and the knowledge that they found. So the moral of the story is, share everything you learn. Like sharing your blogs!
The second blog, entitled “Believe What You Want: Finding Truth 2.0,” really caught my attention because it reminded me of talks on perspective senior year in high school. As I read further into it, it different than what I originally thought it was. Basically, It talks about although technology gives us a lot more information, people will naturally steer clear of what they don’t believe in. They won’t read things that they don’t think they’ll agree with, and will read things they do believe in to reinforce what they believe is the truth. Therefore, something about a topic can have two different truths, compared to who you talk to. This is really interesting, especially since the very last blog I talked about was about sharing published works to create new ideas.
The third blog I covered was, Making Kids “Googlable” . I found it interesting that the world is now a place where employers will rely on google to find information about a potential employee. This just stresses the importance of keeping your skeletons in your closet, so to speak, and to leave them off the internet in pictures, facebook, etc. It also points to the importance of publishing positive things about yourself on the internet. I’m glad our class got to do a few things like that this semester, and hopefully we’ll continue to do that. I’m sad that this process hadn’t started much earlier. If it wasn’t for my own interests in making videos, I wouldn’t have had anything on the internet before this year. I think its very important, because it acts as a “featured works” display for people.
That concludes my Week 11 Blog!
