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"Everyone is talking about a digital curriculum free of those hard copy textbooks that have been a part of schooling since the advent of the one room schoolhouse. This is the first post in a series devoted to investigating resources that can open up a world of digital curricula. In the next post I will bring seven more amazing digital resources that just might replace what we know as the textbook...." This article looks at the CK-12 Foudation, a non-profit organization who is helping to build open-content, web-based collaborative books. Currently most of their books are in the area of STEM but the goal is to encompass all subject K-12. Read this article to learn more about CK-12 and to find additional resources. Via Beth Dichter, Heath Sawyer, Mariano Fernandez Delete the scoop?
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..."project titled "Geographies of the World's Knowledge" has just gone live on the new Oxford Internet Institute data visualisation site. In the project, we use a range of visualisation techniques to map literacy, Internet penetration, the world's newspapers, academic knowledge, Flickr, Wikipedia, and user-generated content indexed in Google".
“Geographies of the World’s Knowledge”, which you hold in your hands today, is a joint venture between Convoco and the Oxford Internet Institute. It reflects upon the distribution of the world’s knowledge, and discusses ten key words, from literacy to user-generated content.
Data, evaluated in an unprecedented way, shows the current distribution of knowledge in the different parts of the globe. Some of the implications of this are surprising, others are worrying. The maps visualise where the foci of knowledge – and, thus, the forces of innovation and economic growth – are located. Thanks to this scientific visualisation the most important factors involved can be grasped at a glance. It also provides evidence of a paradigm shift towards a new visual language in the domain of sciences..."