If you haven’t reviewed David Warlick sites, teachers may find it useful at least as a vocabulary and logic lesson about tech users in schools.
He asserts that the very nature of information is changing, practically before our eyes. It is changing in what it looks like, where we find it, what we look at to view it, what we can do with it, and how we communicate it. Here you will find information and tools designed to help us redefine literacy for the 21st Century.
I wish I could understand what he and others mean about “the very nature of information” changing. He has a respected following among edtech conference goers. Their insight must be important.
I get the nominal reference to the changing access we have to what others know. I also understand that I can read, listen, and exchange words about what others say while using my Tablet PC. In addition, I know some people find inspiration in sharing, community, landscapes of learning, etc.
But I do not understand what about “the nature” of “information” changes through these devices. The nature seems to use logic from Plato, a way of discussing absolutes and eternals.
I’m still looking for the proposition that these learned people use “to grok” (as one commentor of his said) what they see as the changing nature of information in the 21st Century Learning Environment. What am I missing?
