Comments on: How do you find what you want and how do you know it is true? http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/10/27/how-do-you-find-what-you-want-and-how-do-you-know-it-is-true/ How the best knowledge gets to everybody to learn Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:50:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: ARJWright http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/10/27/how-do-you-find-what-you-want-and-how-do-you-know-it-is-true/comment-page-1/#comment-60546 ARJWright Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:26:18 +0000 http://www.goldenswamp.com/?p=1476#comment-60546 Great topic and one that I wish that high school teachers would spend more time on, rather than trying to reteach lessons. If learning is going to change, we have to be able to have to cognative abilities to discern truth and evaluate it. Are there some things that are absolute? Sure are. But in teaching one to learn, we should probably be encouraging those methods that will enable them to discover knowledge, so that they are better able to teach others. Great topic, and Mr. Rheingold was a huge inspiration to me in this area specifically. Great topic and one that I wish that high school teachers would spend more time on, rather than trying to reteach lessons.

If learning is going to change, we have to be able to have to cognative abilities to discern truth and evaluate it. Are there some things that are absolute? Sure are. But in teaching one to learn, we should probably be encouraging those methods that will enable them to discover knowledge, so that they are better able to teach others.

Great topic, and Mr. Rheingold was a huge inspiration to me in this area specifically.

]]> By: How do you find what you want and how do you know it is true? http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/10/27/how-do-you-find-what-you-want-and-how-do-you-know-it-is-true/comment-page-1/#comment-60358 How do you find what you want and how do you know it is true? Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:03:50 +0000 http://www.goldenswamp.com/?p=1476#comment-60358 [...] Judy Breck quotes Howard Rheingold on the information morass that is seeking what you want and knowi...: All of the world’s knowledge is in the air to be plucked down by our telephone. Of course it’s also all the world’s disinformation, misinformation, spam, porn, Nigerian frauds, urban legends, hoaxes. So how do you find what you want and how do you know that it’s true? Those seem like to me both extremely important questions today . . . . [...] [...] Judy Breck quotes Howard Rheingold on the information morass that is seeking what you want and knowi…: All of the world’s knowledge is in the air to be plucked down by our telephone. Of course it’s also all the world’s disinformation, misinformation, spam, porn, Nigerian frauds, urban legends, hoaxes. So how do you find what you want and how do you know that it’s true? Those seem like to me both extremely important questions today . . . . [...]

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