The University of Google: Education in the (Post) Information Age. By Tara Brabazon
“..the internet offers a glut of information on everything-under-the-sun, a mere mouse-click away…We lose the capacity to sift, discard and judge. Information is no longer for social good, but for sale.
Tara Brabazon argues that this information fetish has been profoundly damaging to our learning institutions and to the ambitions of our students and educators. In The University of Google she projects a defiant and passionate vision of education as a pathway to renewal, where research is based on searching and students are on a journey through knowledge, rather than consumers in the shopping centre of cheap ideas.”
Michael says
The best quotes come from the final pages. (spoiler alert)
“Education matters. Expertise matters. Reading and thinking matters. Scholarship matters.”
“Google has provided an infrastructure. We now need a social system to give it a context and meaning.”
“Google helps us find information. Education helps us build knowledge”