[Futurework] Future of learning

2005-08-23 Thread Karen Watters Cole
As everyone knows, like work, the internet is changing learning centers, including academic research and libraries. Some of it is harder to get used to than othersbut like FW, modern technology is restoring a sense of gathering places/community to share ideas and conversation. kwc

RE: [Futurework] Future of learning

2005-08-23 Thread Lawrence deBivort
Greetings to all. Travels over for a while, I hope. There are several significant differences between books and on-line sources that worry me when it comes to actions like UTs. The process of publishing a book takes its content through several steps agents, reviewers,

RE: [Futurework] Future of learning

2005-08-23 Thread Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
Agree with you Lawry. There is a great danger in dumbing down and, going further, creating material that is false but believed because it hasn't been peer reviewed and a great many people access that material. It becomes a self-fulfilling sort of thing. I find that the better has been

RE: [Futurework] Future of learning

2005-08-23 Thread Lawrence deBivort
Hi, Arthur, Well said. H. As I sit here doing some research and writing, I realize another advantage of books one can have many open and spread out at the same time. A laptop screen is still too small for this kind of action. I do love Google! Lawry From:

RE: [Futurework] Future of learning

2005-08-23 Thread Karen Watters Cole
Lawry et al, have you tried Mozilla? http://www.mozilla.org/ It has tabs that allow you to open multiple screens simultaneously without multiple tiny menu bar boxes. My normal routine for scrolling in cyberspace now includes 2 internet stations, each with 5 tabs open (5 fits comfortably

[Futurework] Re: Free Trade (was Re: Avian Flu report / introducing Free Trade at Gunpoint (how else?=)

2005-08-23 Thread Christoph Reuss
Harry Pollard wrote: I'll try again. Free trade means that a country removes the tariffs, quotas, and dumping laws that prevent goods entering the country. That's all. In practice, that's not all. Free trade also means the opening (as in open season) of a country to transnational

RE: [Futurework] Future of learning

2005-08-23 Thread Christoph Reuss
There is a great danger in dumbing down and, going further, creating material that is false but believed because it hasn't been peer reviewed and a great many people access that material. It becomes a self- fulfilling sort of thing. I find that the better has been the education of the

[Futurework] Ugh

2005-08-23 Thread Harry Pollard
Chris, I congratulate you on your magnificent self-deception. You twist and turn meaning, redefine concepts indiscriminately, cannot hold a thought for longer than a sentence. I shall send a note to the protectionist US logging companies whose tariffs have put 10,000 BC loggers out of work and