https://blue.feedland.org/?river=http://data.feedland.org/blue/feeds/Gnomon.xml It's just a feed for now Sat, 14 Sep 2024 13:02:39 GMT feedland v0.6.43 https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Sat, 14 Sep 2024 13:02:40 GMT http://rpc.rsscloud.io:5337/pleaseNotify Sat, September 14, 2024 9:02 AM EDT <p>As a teacher trainer responsible for what was then known as Information Technology, Wikipedia&#39;s 2001 launch caused something of an intellectual storm in Universities seeming to trash the comfortable assumptions of a system ...</p> <p><a href="https://bit.ly/3Xs6Fpk">https://bit.ly/3Xs6Fpk</a></p> <p>of education based on experts passing on their wisdom to novices and acolytes. It was regarded as inherently &#39;false&#39; and unreliable because it used crowd-sourced (i.e. amateur) content creation. Treated with suspicion and scepticism it was forbidden as a reference source in course assignments! Now where are we?</p> <p>Crowd-sourced online content is the intellectual and political nightmare of our age even as Wikipedia&#39;s credibility has become normalised. Residual doubts that might remain are simply managed within &#39;traditional&#39; methods, e.g. don&#39;t rely on just one source.</p> <p>Wikipedia is a vanishingly small threat to those educational and academic norms that are now lost in the smog of &#39;alternative facts&#39; that challenge and destroy &#39;received wisdom&#39;. The very possibility of an accessible, credible, authoritative corpus of reliable knowledge has gone.</p> <p>We live in a world in which intellectual discrimination between the true and the false has become all but impossible and in which &#39;bad actors&#39; thrive like maggots. Long live Wikipedia!</p> Sat, 14 Sep 2024 13:02:39 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=612277 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=612277 As a teacher trainer responsible for what was then known as Information Technology, Wikipedia's 2001 launch caused something of an intellectual storm in Universities seeming to trash the comfortable assumptions of a system ... https://bit.ly/3Xs6Fpk of education based on experts passing on their wisdom to novices and acolytes. It was regarded as inherently 'false' and unreliable because it used crowd-sourced (i.e. amateur) content creation. Treated with suspicion and scepticism it was forbidden as a reference source in course assignments! Now where are we? Crowd-sourced online content is the intellectual and political nightmare of our age even as Wikipedia's credibility has become normalised. Residual doubts that might remain are simply managed within 'traditional' methods, e.g. don't rely on just one source. Wikipedia is a vanishingly small threat to those educational and academic norms that are now lost in the smog of 'alternative facts' that challenge and destroy 'received wisdom'. The very possibility of an accessible, credible, authoritative corpus of reliable knowledge has gone. We live in a world in which intellectual discrimination between the true and the false has become all but impossible and in which 'bad actors' thrive like maggots. Long live Wikipedia!