ClipArt ETC: Free Educational Illustrations for Classroom Use
ClipArt ETC is a really sweet resource I stumbled upon a while ago. I need to share it because art and writing and reference and inspiration. yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_Pyramid
Show them that and tell them to shut up.
This is a thing in library land. We have a piss ton of data and information at our hands. But because of the lack of filters, and because good research skills aren’t taught, we suck at getting up the hierarchy to knowledge and wisdom.
So, I suppose we /are/ better informed, just less knowledgeable for it.
THANK YOU.
the argument’s over, and he’s a friend so I don’t feel like stirring up trouble, but next time. I will come armed.
someone was trying to argue with me the other day that people today are “better informed” and that the human race has only ever moved forward and I vehemently disagree with him.
he accused me of being pessimistic and said that “the moment you start questioning if we’re making forward progress is the moment we stop making forward progress” (which…no. that’s not how those things work)
but c’mon. better informed? yes I can get information immediately at my fingertips; however, the chance that it is incorrect information (as it has likely not been vetted by even an editor or agent) is SO MUCH HIGHER than if I went to the library and found a book on the same topic. I may have more information on more things, but it’s about people’s opinions, not facts, and when they’re facts they’re not VETTED facts, and I’m in a heavier state of confusion than I ever was (I can’t confidently pin this on the internet age entirely, because it could also be developmental though).
also, sure, it can be pessimistic to question whether we’ve made progress, but I prefer to see it this way: I am equipped with more or less the same innate tools, information resources, and ability to contact reliable human beings as every heroic person who has ever lived, if not more, so
um
I have no excuse.