NECC -- Day 1
Last night was the first session of NECC, the opening keynote by David Weinberger. He has some very challenging ideas about the nature of knowledge in the world of wikis and blogs. I first came in contact with him on a Library of Congress series on the digital future. His talk last night was about the same topic and covered many of the same points.
What was interesting to me also was what happened when I came back to write to all of you about this. I went first to check out his blog. The whole talk is there as well as some commentary back and forth -- all before he gave the speech!
BTW, I also ran into Sandy. She confirmed that she has dropped the class because of too much business at her new school.
posted by Pat at 7:47 AM
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I believe the Scince project I have read is tremendous! May be this serve as a guide, if it meets the standard for other members of the class.
What do you think?
3:48 PM
I listened to Weinberger's speech on the LOC link. What an excellent speaker. The visual that he uses to explain the shape of knowledge spoke clearly to me about what he thinks. He uses the analogy of knowledge moving from the "tree of knowledge" with nicely organized categories, into a more swampy, tangled mess that contains more richness and subjectivity that we can ever possibly get through. I like the idea of knowledge being more subjective. I was one who always questioned what I read. How did I know that what I was reading was true, or just someone's opinion? The web and blogs give us freedom to question what we hear and to search for our own knowledge.
6:42 PM
As a librarian, I loved what Weinberger had to say about Dewey and his categories. They work to a certain extent, but they don't change and expand as fast as we need them to. This could be why I put books on the shelves where I knew my students would find them, and not necessarily where their DDC said they should go. The idea of librarians with razor blades was pretty funny. I'll tell all the LMS about it next week.
6:46 PM
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