Connect Learning, with David Warlick

Episode 56 — Right & Wrong on the Information Highway

March 7th, 2006

This podcast will feature recorded discussions that took place during two presentations of a conference session that I delivered at the Illinois Technology Conference for Educators last week. The session was called “Right & Wrong on the Information Highway,” and it is about information ethics in the new information environment.

The thrust of the discussion surrounds the lack of assurance that we have for the reliability of most information that is available to us on the Internet. We seemed to conclude that it is an ethical responsibility to assure not only that what you use is reliable, but that what you produce is equally accurate. Another issue that came up was the possible polarization caused by information that is overly personalized. I’m afraid that we did not address that issue in any substantial way. It’s a real problem, for which I do not have an answer.

The discussions were all in response to the EPIC 2014 video. You can watch the video by pointing your browser to:

http://robinsloan.com/epic/

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