Just in Time Technology

 

 From Now On
The Educational Technology Journal


 
Vol 9|No 9|May|2000

Beyond Information Power

by Jamie McKenzie

Many essential life questions require more than collecting and synthesizing. They involve the creation of new ideas, novel solutions and customized responses.

In the case of medicine these may be questions of life and death.

How do we prepare our students to manage such questions skillfully, resourcefully and imaginatively?

Review:
The Social Life
of Information

By Jamie McKenzie
 

Writing from the heart of Silicon Valley, insiders John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid effectively debunk the myths of what they call an infocentric point of view. They stress the often neglected social aspects of learning and acting effectively.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Credits: The photographs were shot by Jamie McKenzie.
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