I’m trying a blog experiment to see how well this technology helps me write a paper. For now, I’m in the formulating mode, collecting articles, quotes, and ideas that may or may not make it into the final paper. Here’s the first one from Michael Gorman, the infamous president of the ALA who found himself the object of scorn when he wrote an op-ed piece in the LA Times about Google’s plan to digitize everything. He continued to be unrepentant when he responded to the attacks in Library Journal on February 15, 2005. He points to the often uncivil debate. Hmm…and the Washington Post just had that interesting caper with anonymous commenting. So, for educators living in a world of instantaneous, push-button publishing to literally billions of people, what do we need to be teaching our kids about writing? But even more, about civil debate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m trying a blog experiment to see how well this technology helps me write a paper. For now, I’m in the formulating mode, collecting articles, quotes, and ideas that may or may not make it into the final paper. Here’s the first one from Michael Gorman, the infamous president of \u2026 Continue reading