Teaching for the Future: Episode 22: High Tech, Low Tech, No Tech?

I want to thank Chris Penn from the Financial Aid Podcast for the great intro for the show.

News:
What's next for Wikipedia from Boing Boing: Just down the street at Harvard Law School Wikipedia is having their Wikimania conference and I'm not going. I never knew how expensive these conferences are. I figured because the website was a free service then I could get in on the cheap.

Authorship gets lost on Web from USAToday (via Weblogg-ed): This article talks about the use of mainstream news media in blogs and don't reference the original article. This article really touches upon the importance of Web-ethics. I think this is going to be an issue in the Read/Write Web, and maybe we should rethink our definition of plagiarism.

The Sims Application in Sociology from David McDivitt: This post talks about using the Sims as a lesson in Sociology. This is an interesting way of making the lesson easier to swallow and allows students a frame of reference.

Promo:
This week's promo is from the Shakespeare Cast. You can find more information about the show at ShakespeareCast.com

Commentary:

Do the Tools Make the Man (or Woman)?

Sometimes I wonder if I'm getting too caught up in "tech" part of ed-tech. I think technology is a great platform for communication, but technology will never replace the message. At it's very core New Media is just people communicating with other people. Maybe we don't need technology to have New Media.

I found this great article on NYTimes.com called All the News That Fits: Liberia’s Blackboard Headlines. Alfred Sirleaf is the publisher/editor/newscaster for Monrovia, Liberia's Daily Talk. Alfred collects news reports and posts them up on black boards for the people in his community who can not afford to buy the paper. This is a very low-tech version of Google News. Maybe we don't really need all these bells and whistles.