http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/08/teacher-and-graduate-value-information-feast.html Technology, leadership, and the future of schools Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:42:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/08/teacher-and-graduate-value-information-feast.html/comment-page-1#comment-10149 mmwms Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/08/teacher-and-graduate-value-information-feast.html#comment-10149 Yes, yes. Thomas Paine had it right on this many years ago "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly." It's the struggle to make sense of it all that makes for the valuable take-away from the information glut. We need no longer hold info itself in such high regard as previously. As teachers and learners we now have the luxury of demanding that A. the info be of highest quality and B. it be used to create new knowledge with consequences beyond the classroom. Yes, yes. Thomas Paine had it right on this many years ago “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.” It’s the struggle to make sense of it all that makes for the valuable take-away from the information glut. We need no longer hold info itself in such high regard as previously. As teachers and learners we now have the luxury of demanding that A. the info be of highest quality and B. it be used to create new knowledge with consequences beyond the classroom.

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