God bless http : Sir Ken Robinson

(Ok it’s shamefully easy to blog about TED presentations (again and again and again), but hey this is, again, awesome stuff).

Sir Ken Robinson explains how public education system all around the world educates people out of creativity. British wit and creativity insight at its best.

Homo Sapiens Technologicus

Entendu sur Radio Nova cet entretien passionnant avec le philosophe Michel Puech, auteur de Homo Sapiens Technologicus ouvrage tentant de répondre à la question suivante : que signifie habiter technologiquement le monde ? Une introduction ici.

A New Literacy ?

Disappointing essay by Marc Prensky – yep, the same one that coined the Digital Natives wonderful term which I’ve already blogged about).

Marc develops a theory whereby :

Programming, aka the ability to control machines, is indeed the key literacy (i.e the ability to carefully read and write a contemporary spoken language) of the century (…) and that who can’t will be increasingly left behind.

Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants

Thanks to slashdot, I’ve found this great article on how univeristy librarian (the Digital Immigrants) should change the way they interact with students (the Digital Natives) to help them finding their ways through the temple of knowledge a library is.

James Paul Gee, a linguist who is the Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the author of Why Video Games Are Good for Your Soul, argued that librarians need to adapt their techniques to digital natives.