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Over at Easily Distracted:

I’m sure some of my anxiety is also the generalized fear that most academics have that we perhaps do not know all the things that we’re supposed to know.

I’m a big fan of the idea of teaching research skills. Research and writing is in many ways the first true instance of cybernetics, using dumb computers to do smart things when combined with the power of human thought. It is precisely this cybernetic aspect that makes information literacy terrifying to teach but exciting to learn.

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