Alice in InfoLand

If you enjoyed the Fisch video, he's got a trio of thought provoking ones on his blog, including 'Did you know?'.
Have you seen the 'The Machine is Us/ing Us?' It's by an assistant anthropology professor at Kansas State, M.Wesch. It nicely sums up Web 2.0 in under 5 minutes. It's way cool.
here's the link.It's a work in progress.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
Jane

This presentation is a definite WOW! I used it with our faculty and with our 10th graders first semester to get them all thinking about globalization. It's easy for teachers and students to feel removed and disconnected from the real world - and this is a real wake-up call. For the glass half-full / glass half-empty debaters, it can be viewed as depressing and frightening, or invigorating and challenging. I will say that the majority of our students fell in the later group. I contacted the author of the piece in September and got his permission to alter the presentation for my local audience. It was easy to patch in some slides that described our library at the beginning in order to personalize the whole thing. Students and teachers were uniformly "blown away" by this presentation. Kudos to Karl Fisch! Thank you for sharing it with all your readers.

While Karl's original presentation is breathtaking, the facts presented are mostly inaccurate or unverifiable. Researching the sources Karl offers I find only a handful of the data he uses is accurate. Fully two-thirds of the data he uses is wrong, simplified to the point of being misleading, otherwise misreported, or unverifiable.

Should we be pointing the way to the future with inaccurate information?