How to Embrace the Wild, Wild Web | MindShift | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it

There are more than a trillion Web pages on the Internet. This incredible abundance of information and the ease with which it can be searched sometimes fails to counteract the confusing chorus of anonymous sources.

 

In his new book Too Big to Know, Harvard researcher David Weinberger articulates this ambivalence while celebrating the Internet’s ability to change the way we come to know things.

 

“We are in a crisis of knowledge,” he writes, “at the same time that we are in an epochal exaltation of knowledge.