(highlight:: Using Google Translate to Discover New Knowledge in Wikipedia
Summary:
Wikipedia is available in many languages, offering different perspectives and depth of information.
For example, the Spanish Wikipedia's article on cats is remarkably different from the English Wikipedia's article. The Italian Wikipedia provides five times more information on Leonardo da Vinci.
Good searchers understand the value of exploring multiple resources, including those in different languages.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
So we all know about Wikipedia. But one of the chapters in the book I talk about, why would you ever want to read or search in the Italian Wikipedia? Right? So, a, did you know Wikipedia comes in many, many other languages? So you probably know Wikipedia comes in Spanish as well, right? It's Italian, it's German, it's Russian, it's etc, etc. It basically comes in all the world's languages. And one of the things I learned and one of the things I think that makes a good searcher a good searcher is realizing, oh, there are other perspectives on this. What would the Spanish perspective on say cat speed? So if you've ever looked at the Spanish Wikipedia and tree on cats, it has almost no points of contact with the English language Wikipedia and tree on cats. It's remarkably different. And you would think cat is a cat, right? Oh, no, the Spanish language Wikipedia is vastly different. I think more importantly, as I say in the book, the Italian Wikipedia article goes into enormous depth about Leonardo da Vinci and it contains, I don't know, five times more information Than the English language entry. And so with the assistance system that Google translate, all of a sudden, now you have access to that. So a good searcher realizes that there are multiple, multiple resources, including resources in other languages that they may or may not have access to. So I think that's a couple of characteristics of what makes a really good searcher a good searcher.)
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(highlight:: Information Literacy Changes Our Perception of the World
Summary:
The easy access to searchable information and the understanding of what it means to be information literate fundamentally changes our interaction with the knowledge world.
Kids nowadays can easily fact-check conversations at the dinner table using their phones, challenging and questioning information. This ability to look up information changes the way we think about knowledge and has a significant impact on various aspects of our lives.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
But it's one of these things where the ability to look that stuff up changes fundamentally the way we think about our interaction with the knowledge world. I have kids who at the dinner table, a fact void will be set over a conversation over dinner and they will whip out their phone and search for it, right? Population of Japan is 2 million people. Search for it. No, no, no, that can't possibly be right. So the easy access to searchable information and the understanding of what it means to be information literate fundamentally changes all kinds of things.)
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