Content used to be difficult to find, behind closed doors, and
very proprietary. Those days are long over. Now it’s just the
opposite. We now have so much content, we don’t know where or
even how to start. We went from trying to find a needle in a
haystack to trying to find a needle in a needle stack. This all
happened in a fairly short time, so short that some instructors
are still teaching like most of the world’s knowledge is not
just seconds away. Our whole approach to knowledge management
and what we do with knowledge has to change. The major search
engines, obviously, figured this out years ago, and their
software engineers have constantly been trying to improve
searching by making their search engines smarter. One complaint
about smart searches is that they don’t let you totally explore
all of the possibilities on the web. They filter out some
information that might be the exact information you need. That’s
valid, but not necessarily a concern for K12 searches. When the
student reaches higher academia