Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Re: Historiography and the Information Age

Hi!

TJ, I have been arguing for some time (in various contexts) that the
skills involved in locating, evaluating, analyzing and synthesizing
information are among the most important skills we should be teaching.
I believe that, at any given point in time, you have a conversation
about what tools (including technology) are available and how best to
use them to meet your informational goals. I also believe all of this
is, in many ways, even more important than which specific content is
learned while developing these skills. My Humanities 7 course is built
(mostly with student-designed units) on a skeleton that is mostly
skill-based rather than content-based.

Take care,
Bill Ivey
Stoneleigh-Burnham School


On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:50 AM, TJ Rainsford <tjrainsford@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is much more than the tools of technology. I believe this is a
> fundamental issue facing our economic world. If we are indeed in the
> "information age" (a topic for another time, perhaps), then the theory and
> skills necessary for managing and analyzing information should arguably be
> at the forefront even before the technology.

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