Goognostic?
Welcome...
To the Age of the Digital Natives.
We exist at the convergence of knowledge and information systems, cultures entwine as the Internet grows. Our persona is merging with our web presence in the zeitgeist of social networking and digital communications. Who we are,
what we know, how we we search, how we learn...
Are we more than a click away from the answer?
What was the question?
To the Age of the Digital Natives.
We exist at the convergence of knowledge and information systems, cultures entwine as the Internet grows. Our persona is merging with our web presence in the zeitgeist of social networking and digital communications. Who we are,
what we know, how we we search, how we learn...
Are we more than a click away from the answer?
What was the question?
Why eLearning?
To ensure our success in this zone of digital development we require the rapid acquisition of diverse and dynamic skills sets. Educational culture is evolving with social change and the emergence of new literacies and collaborations.
Information and Communication Technologies do not replace educators, they are the new classroom. The new Blackboard.
Technology should not subvert sound educational principles and practices, it can empower them via quality eLearning.
Information and Communication Technologies do not replace educators, they are the new classroom. The new Blackboard.
Technology should not subvert sound educational principles and practices, it can empower them via quality eLearning.
Definition
goo·gnos·tic [goo-nos-tik]
–adjective Also, goo·gnos·ti·cal.
1.pertaining to knowledge acquired via the Internet.
2.possessing Internet knowledge, esp. esoteric knowledge of sourcecode and metadata.
3.( initial capital letter ) pertaining to or characteristic of the Goognostics.
–noun
4.
( initial capital letter ) a member of any of certain sects among the early Netizens
who claimed to have superior knowledge of sourcecode, and explained the world as created
by powers or agencies arising as emanations from the Architect.
Origin:
2005
A slang phrase that developed in a social context referring to people who acquired information from the Internet and espoused it as sacred and/or personal knowledge. Later expanding to a wider meaning, in the adjective form, as a general reference to knowledge acquisition via the Internet.
Etymological roots:
goo·gle [goo-gewl]
–noun
a popular search engine that originating from a misspelling of the word "googol",
the number one followed by one hundred zeros, which was meant to signify the amount of
information the search engine was to handle.
goo·gol (gōō'gôl', -gəl)
–noun
the number 10 raised to the power 100, written out as the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.
[ Coined at the age of nine by Milton Sirotta, nephew of Edward Kasner (1878-1955), American mathematician.]
goo [goo]
–noun Informal
1. a thick or sticky substance: Wash that goo off your hands.
2. maudlin sentimentality.
Origin:
1910–15, Americanism ; perh. short for burgoo
gnos·tic [nos-tik]
1555–65; < LL Gnōsticī (pl.) name of the sect
< Gk gnōstikós (sing.) pertaining to knowledge, equiv. to gnōst ( ós ) known + -ikos -ic
Early web listings
(Found via a Google search, July 2010 ;)
Ironically, first published occurences of the word Goognostic originate from a technical glitch in a Google project. The Google Books project commenced 2002-4, however it has it's roots in the original concept of Google as envisioned by Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1996.
Google Books
The misspelling Goognostic originates from a misinterpretation of the scanned word Geognostic by image to text software.
Examples:
1.
Cuba and Porto Rico with the other islands of the West Indies; their topography, climate, flora, products, industries, cities, people, political conditions, etc. (1898)
Author: Hill, Robert Thomas, 1858-1941
Publisher: London, T. F. Unwin
Year: 1899
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Digitizing sponsor: Google
p. 315.
"...the Carribean in it's goognostic aspects. It's area is 24 square miles. It lias a high and sharp configuration..."
Found here.
2.
Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain)
Volume: 11
Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Digitizing sponsor: MBLWHOI Library
p. 296
"On the goognostic situation of the Rei-Fate Stone and the Fullers Earth at Nutfield [1821]"
Found here.