Alan November Opens Digital Horizons

Educational and technology pioneer Alan November spent all of Thursday, April 19 at Saint George's, visiting classrooms, speaking to faculty and staff, and addressing the concerns of parents and community members that evening.  See a Photo Gallery from Alan's visit.  His key messages included: 
> Learn fact-checking strategies, such as looking up the primary source, since a lot of the information online is not true.
> Google is designed to give you the information it thinks you want, so learn to use the Google Operators Guide to make your searches more accurate.
> "If you only get one point of view, you won't do the best job.  No matter what that job may be."
> A knowledge engine like WolframAlpha can pull information from many sources and compile it in new ways.
> Need to organize a lot of online information for a research paper? Try Diigo.com.
> You can find the news coverage of past events by typing a webpage into Archive.org's "Wayback Machine".
> Answers are becoming "cheap", so power will flow to those who ask the most creative questions!