The university of Google : education in the (post) information age /

"Looking at schools and universities, it is difficult to pinpoint when education, teaching and learning started to haemorrhage purpose, aspiration and function. Libraries and librarians have been starved of funding. Teachers cram their curricula with 'skill development' and 'gene...

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Main Author: Brabazon, Tara
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007
Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : ©2007
Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : [2007]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : living (in the) post
  • BA (Google) : graduating to information literacy
  • Digital Eloi and analogue Morlocks
  • Stretching flexible learning
  • An i-diots guide to i-lectures
  • Popular culture and the sensuality of education
  • Exploiting knowledge?
  • Deglobalizing education
  • Burning towers and smoldering truth : September 11 and the changes to critical literacy
  • The gift : why education matters
  • Living (in the) post
  • BA (Google) : graduating to information literacy
  • Digital Eloi and analogue Morlocks
  • Stretching flexible learning
  • An i-diots guide to i-lectures
  • Popular culture and the sensuality of education
  • Exploiting knowledge?
  • Deglobalizing education
  • Burning towers and smoldering truth : September 11 and the changes to critical literacy
  • The gift : why education matters
  • Introduction: Living (in the) post 1
  • Sect. 1 Literacy
  • 1. BA (Google): graduating to information literacy
  • 2. Digital Eloi and analogue Morlocks
  • Sect. 2. Culture
  • 3. Stretching flexible learning
  • 4. An i-diots guide to i-lectures
  • 5. Popular culture and the sensuality of education
  • Sect. 3. Critique
  • 6. Exploiting knowledge?
  • 7. Deglobalizing education
  • 8. Burning towers and smouldering truth: September 11 and the changes to critical literacy
  • Conclusion: The gift: why education matters.