Monthly Archives: November 2007

Boomerang in Motion

November 29th, 2007

I may not fit the Boomerang Generation label squarely, which has been applied to youth born between 1977 and 1989 who have returned home after a brief period of time living on their own, but I struggle, feel lost from time to time, and find reasons to leave my low-paying job on a daily basis.

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Wiki-Wiki Way

November 11th, 2007

Article validity is a concern voiced by many, including an array of teachers, theorists, and politicians that are concerned about the accuracy of developing articles that are never absolute or authored by individuals with “proper” credentials. The openness of Wikipedia makes creating articles of knowledge an intensely dialogic phenomenon, doing away with the idea of knowledge as emanating from single, authoritative, closed source, and instead embracing the idea of knowledge as being open, collective, relational, and always changing.

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Imagination and Knowledge

November 6th, 2007

I recently found the following quote from Albert Einstein, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.”

Do you think knowledge is to be discovered or created?

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