http://www.metafilter.com/tags/JISC Posts tagged with 'JISC' at MetaFilter. Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:28:47 -0800 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:28:47 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/68358/Im%2Dteh%2Duglee%2Dkid%2Don%2Dteh%2Dinternets <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080118-the-google-generation-not-so-hot-at-googling-after-all.html">Study: Internet Not Dumbing Down Kids, Who Were Stupid Anyway.</a> <a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/reppres/gg_final_keynote_11012008.pdf">Full report! </a>(warning: PDF) The information literacy of young people, has not improved with the widening access to technology: in fact, their apparent facility with computers disguises some worrying problems. Young people have unsophisticated mental maps of what the internet is, often failing to appreciate that it is a collection of networked resources from different providers. (Like tubes!) tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.68358 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:28:47 -0800 academic BritishLibrary googlegeneration JISC people research searching young parmanparman http://www.metafilter.com/59278/Web%2D20 <a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw0701b.pdf">What is Web 2.0? [PDF]</a> The best description of Web 2.0 that I have read. <em>The six big ideas... 1 Individual production and User Generated Content 2 Harness the power of the crowd 3 Data on an epic scale 4 Architecture of Participation 5 Network Effects 6 Openness</em> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.59278 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:44:05 -0800 big ideas JISC web2 bobbyelliott