Smart Talk no. 1: Peter Morville: Seach and the Paradox of Choice
Peter Morville co-authored the IA Bible--'Information Architecture for the World Web' (1998) back when most of us were still learning HTML. In this PIL interview, Peter discusses "the relationship...
View ArticleSmart Talk no. 2: Andrea Lunsford: Writing and the Profound Revolution in Access
Andrea Lunsford, the diretor of Stanford University's Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR), is the force behind the 'Stanford Study of Writing', a longitudinal study that investigates how today's...
View ArticleSmart Talk no. 3: John Palfrey: Rethinking Plagiarism in the Digital Age?
John Palfrey, co-director of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, is the co-author of 'Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives' (2008). In this...
View ArticleSmart Talk no. 4: Dale Dougherty: Web 2.0 and the Social Context of Learning
Dale Dougherty, co-founder of O'Reilly Media, first coined the phrase "Web 2.0" in 2004. In this PIL interview, Dale discusses the impact of Web 2.0 capabilities on education, especially how...
View ArticleSmart Talk no. 5: Howard Rheingold: "Crap Detection 101: Required Coursework"
Howard Rheingold has been a chronicler of the political, cultural, and social impact of new technologies for almost two decades. In this PIL interview, Howard discusses what he calls "the myth of the...
View ArticleSmart Talk no. 6: Nicholas Carr: "The Age of Perpetual Distraction"
Nick Carr is an author and blogger who has written three books about the impact of technology on society, culture and business. In this PIL Interview, Nick discusses what the "intellectual ethic" of...
View ArticleSmart Talk no. 7: Lee Rainie: "Why New Media Are Becoming Your New Neighborhood"
Lee Rainie has headed up the Pew's Internet & American Life Project since it's inception in 2000. He and his colleagues conduct large-scale periodic surveys, which both scholars and the press often...
View ArticleSmart Talk no. 8: Sandra Jamieson and rebecca moore Howard: "Unraveling the...
Sandra Jamieson and Rebecca Moore Howard direct The Citation Project, a national study providing open access empirical data about how college students use sources when writing papers for composition...
View ArticleSmart Talk no. 9: Russell Poldrack: "May I Have your Attention? The Brain,...
Dr. Russell Poldrack, a renowned neuroscientist, who heads the Imaging Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin where he and his team use MRI scanners with the inordinate power to study the...
View ArticleSmart Talk no. 10: Jeffrey Schnapp: "Envisioning Bibliotheca 2.0: One of the...
Jeffrey Schnapp, a cultural historian and pioneer in digital humanities who is faculty at Harvard, co-teaches a seminar in the architecture school on the past, present, and future of libraries. In this...
View ArticleSmart Talk no. 11: David Weinberger: "Why Networked Knowledge Makes Us...
David Weinberger, a senior researcher and Co-Director of Library Innovation Lab at Harvard, is a leading thinker about the impact of the Internet on society, markets, and the production of knowledge....
View ArticleSmart Talk no. 12: Barbara Fister: "Playing for Keeps: Rethinking How...
Barbara Fister ia a Professor and Academic Librarian at Gustavus Adolphus College, a small liberal arts college near Minneapolis. In this PIL interview, we talked to Barbara about why the research...
View ArticleSmart Talk no. 13: Ken Bain: "Keep Learning: Pursuing Questions that Are...
Ken Bain is the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of the District of Columbia and a Professor of History and Urban Education. He is an acclaimed educator who has lectured...
View ArticleSmart Talk no. 14: Peter Suber: "The Imperative of Open Access"
Peter Suber is the Director of the Harvard Open Access Project and the unofficial, though widely acknowledged, leader of the worldwide movement to make published scholarly works-books and journals-open...
View ArticleSmart Talk no. 15: Howie Schneider: "Navigating the Rising Tide of News"
Howie Schneider developed and teaches the nation's first course on New Literacy at the Journalism School at Stony Brook University, where he is also the founding dean. We interviewed Howie in May 2013...
View ArticleSmart Talk no. 16: Char Booth: A DIY Approach to Re-Imagining Libraries"
Char Booth is an inspirational academic librarian at Claremont Colleges (CA), who integrates design, Web 2.0 learning technologies, and pedagogy and produces stand-up-and-take-notice results. For these...
View ArticleSmart Talk no. 17: David Conley: Deconstructing College Readiness
David Conley is a policy analyst and professor of educational policy and leadership at the University of Oregon. We interviewed David in October 2013, asking him what it means to be college ready...
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