Old school or new? Memorize or retrieve?

I’m struggling. Which is most important for a fifth-grader:  1.) to carry in one’s head the obscure facts that unlike the Cherokee Indians, the Iroquois lived in longhouses and ate roots or  2.) to aquire the skill to evaluate and select authoritative online information  from websites like http://www.nativeamericans.com/ in order to access that type of information when needed?
This weekend [...]

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Metacrap happens

Today has been a surreal graduate student experience about metadata, classification and cataloging… basically how we find information or enable information to be found so we can use it. (Isn’t that just another way to define communication?)
It all started with a Melissa Gross-style imposed query by one of my favorite professors, Dr. Brown, who [...]

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“Communication” is often lost in a “to do” list

The word “communication” seems an unusual thread for an entire 2-day symposium addressing the latest research and methods for a combined knowledge and project management initiative. I’m never sure whether it’s because of my experience in mass communication, my belief that knowledge management is really communication management, or just because I love to communicate with [...]

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Knowledge Synthesis

What happens when you mix project management and knowledge management? A super symposium, a room full of bright people and novel ideas, and an awareness that brings organizations to a new level of excitement about how to capitalize on their most important asset: it’s people.
I’m just in from the 2-day conference on knowledge and project [...]

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Do you know what you know?

Is a little known bit of information significant? Could it be a clue that solves the big picture?
And how do we know what we know? Can we share knowledge if we can’t recognize it… if we think it’s just too insignificant?
Once again, I looked to the “big picture” of the School of Athens for small [...]

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