Scholarpedia’s Wikifying the Canon
Since October 20, 2011, Scholarpedia has hosted a wiki-like weblog that offers peer-reviewed articles, sponsored by the site’s editors and curators. Please read their latest post, Wikifying Scholarly Canons, to find out more about knowledge as it appears on the Internet.
Teachable Moments for Digital Citizenship
Jeff Dunn, the co-founder of Learn Egg website, shares a new resource for the digitally literate: How to integrate digital literacy into the classroom. The infographic, created by education blogger Nancy White using Piktochart, features Mike Ribble’s Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship. Fortunately, as Piktochart allows for Creative Commons Attribution, we can share it on […]
Advancing Quantum Computing
D-Wave, a new start-up company in Burnaby, Canada, earlier this year developed a quantum chip that has the potential to change the processing speed and memory storage of digital devices. Here is the development as reported in October in Science on-line journal, and the same discovery reported in layman’s terms from CBCnews Technology and Science […]