Linking Thinking

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It is of paramount importance. From the beginning I have been asking myself two questions. How biased and ideologically driven it is, really. But I felt like if my mind was split by a rock in two streams – because on the other hand I knew this is so true I couldn’t even fathom any arguments against it. Come to think of it, can we really not learn?

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Digital Resources for Learning

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Every now and then you stumble into a source that may not give you that much of a new information to think about, but the overall content and conclusions it leads to will shed a light on concepts and information already encountered. For me personally, first three chapters of the book Digital Resources for Learning from Daniel Churchill did exactly that.

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Technology and Utopia

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In order to reflect on technology effectively, on how we should approach it and use it in an ethical way, we better learn how to champion whole continuum of possible scenarios. While somewhat extreme outcomes may be easy to come up with, to describe all the between-steps or even recognize them happening may be harder then defining what is information.

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The Fourth Revolution by Luciano Floridi

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Once upon a time, I guess it was lecture on introduction to Information Sciences, I’ve heard our lecturer saying that one of the fascinating features of our present is the possibility to meet, face to face, majority of top-tier scientists our domain has. Similarly, I think, we have the possibility to watch many of great and important writings being debated, confirmed or disproved in very short time. Such is a nature of sources and thoughts dealing with technology, their meaning, consequences or even forecasting.

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