C4T #3

I had the privilege on commenting on Mr. Doug Belshaw's blog. His second blog post was about how information over the internet gets curated. Basically, every time we search for something on search engines such as Google or Yahoo it returns articles that we view most often. Web technicians call this "curated search results". This can leave us unexposed to different opinions on the same topic. Mr. Belshaw suggest that we read news articles from a wide variety of sources so that we can have a broad perspective on different issues and be able to understand one another.


Mr. Belshaw's first post was about how messy learning is. Learning is messy because it can often be difficult to acquire new skills. It involves some progression and regression. Sometimes we learn things fast whereas, other times it takes patience and training. However, there is a difference between the two. Mr. Belshaw says, "learning is related to activity and practice. Training is sustained practice of what we have learned. Basically, training is a byproduct to sharpen the new skills we have learned.