Top Work Literacy Virtual Teams Taxonomy Content for Wed.Mar 16, 2011

JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG MARCH 16, 2011 Pandora's Facebook Box ( image ) I flew to Detroit today, and thankfully Delta had wifi. Given that, allow me to digress. Here's what happened. Right? Now there's an idea. MORE >>	HAROLD JARCHE MARCH 16, 2011 Networked Knowledge: out of the ivory tower Tweet Many of the important issues that face our society are complex and require a good knowledge of science. Ivory Towers by Colin Smith. MORE >>	JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG MARCH 16, 2011 Signal Austin Conversation: Best Buy CTO and Geek Squad Founder Robert Stephens It was fun to open last week's event with Robert Stephens, who has grown Geek Squad from 2 people to more than 20,000 in the past 15 years. Highlights include his view of advertising ("a tax for poor products") and his confirmation that yes, every Best Buy employee will, in fact, get a tablet sometime soon MORE >>	PORTALS AND KM MARCH 16, 2011 Overcoming Information Overload on the Web: Part 1: Too many sources, too many events. This is the first of a three part series on how the Darwin Awareness Engine ™ addresses some of the key problems generated by information overload on the Web. The Awareness Engine is a Web aggregation utility for anyone needing to maintain awareness of emerging events from the Internet and intranet. MORE >>
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KNOWLEDGE JOLT WITH JACK | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2011
Nudge: the choice is yours

I had been looking forward to reading more detail about the idea of Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's Nudge after seeing some excerpts of the book and reading related materials. It's an interesting overview of research on human behavior in choice-making circumstances and what to do with this information. The basic idea of the book has two elements. MORE >>

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INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2011
Always Connected: The new digitial media habits of young children

Just published, a new study "We reviewed seven recent studies — several never before released — about young children and their ownership and use of media. By focusing on very young children and analyzing multiple studies over time, we were able to arrive at a new, balanced portrait of children’s media habits. Gutnick, A.L. et al. MORE >>

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CLARK QUINN | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2011
Understanding by Design

I have long advocated, in consonance with sound learning principles, that in a good design process works backwards: start with the desired outcomes as capabilities, align assessment to the outcomes, and then design the learning experience to achieve those outcomes. This shouldn’t be new. I am of mixed feelings. design MORE >>

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WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2011
Gas Prices: Another Reason to Adopt Web Working?

Between the shaky but continuing economic recovery and the political unrest burning through the Middle East, 2011 has seen oil prices continue to rise. And despite the recent dip due to the tragedy in Japan , they’re likely to continue to go up according to many experts. Davinci Virtual, a U.K. What’s stopping the other 4.4 million? MORE >>

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PORTALS AND KM | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2011
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Plaxo’s Personal Assistant Keeps Your Address Book Up-to-Date WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2011

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