October 01, 2008

Tag Galaxy of Education Innovation

Tell me, what do you see? I see Education Innovation.

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The pics are from Tag Galaxy. It's a mashup of a search engine and Flickr photos. I think it is really cool. It is another demonstration that knowledge and information is becoming visual. In previous posts    (What The Heck Is This? - It's a DoodleBuzz) I discussed DoodleBuzz and The Big Word Project (Big Word Project: The Intersection of Education and the New Approach to Meaning).

 I wonder what the literacy implications are for making knowledge and information visual and creative using these tools.

Here is another pic

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This stuff is so cool. As I said about The Big Word Project...

This got me thinking about its relation to education. If a word can take on multiple meanings and even take on locations on the world wide web, then what else could a word be connected with? A word could be connected with a picture, a sound, a smell, a country, a person, a movie, a song, a poem. If you think about it, this has some pretty powerful implications for education. We are moving from a "there is one right definition of a word" to a "a word can mean multiple things and those things will be specific to each individual." Word and meaning will take on many more meanings and concepts, and those can be individualized from a country, a culture, a group, or an individual.

As Tag Galaxy and DoodleBuzz pictures and scribbles can also convey meaning as well.

Oct 1, 2008 9:13:06 PM | Teaching

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