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March 13, 2006
I'm hosting another in my intermittent series of discussions about webby topics. On Wednesday night, the topic will be: What's happening to the authority of knowledge? The fact that an article appears in the Britannica confers some authority on it. That an article appears in Wikipedia does not. What does? What does this mean for knowledge and power? Stuff like that. It runs from 6-7:15pm, and it's open to everyone. It's at the Berkman Center and we serve food. [map] See you there? Posted
by D. Weinberger at March 13, 2006 07:43 PM
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While I can't join you on Wednesday night (it's an awfully long way to drive from Toronto), I'd like to make a contribution to the evening. My talk, Why Johnny and Janey Can't Read and Why Mr. and Ms. Smith Can't Teach specifically deals with this question in the context of the historical construction of knowledge from ancient Greece until today (well actually, until about a hundred years from now). The last section deals with the change in authority and how knowledge is collaboratively constructed, and why the institutions of literacy don't know where or how to begin to address the issue (and, really sorry about stealing your Sears washing machine story). So far, it's garnering a lot of favourable notices among the literacy, library, and pedagogical communities.
Anyway, if you can use it tomorrow, please feel free.
Posted by: Mark Federman | March 14, 2006 02:18 PM
Any chance one day there will a broadcast of the discussions through the web? It's so easy to do!It would be great to share your thoughts from so far away, São Paulo, Brazil. We have been broadcasting some of our classes at City of Knowledge - University of Sao Paulo since 2003, and it has always been fun to have folks from all over the country at the chat, sometimes sending questions to the lecturer, sometimes just sharing experiences.
www.cidade.usp.br/educar
Posted by: Lilian Starobinas | March 14, 2006 09:27 PM