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Whatever Happened to the Book is Happening Now!
At great risk of appearing unneccesarily sycophantic, I need to say that Mark Pesce‘s post, Whatever Happened to the Book, is clever, unusually clever, even for Mark. Everything that currently intellectually interests (read obsesses me) about literature and our hyperconnected age is explored. Please read it closely and tell your friends, especially if they are teachers still learning. Here’s a taste, I particularly enjoyed the third... Read More
Why Wikipedians are the Weirdest People on the Internet
Lawrence Lessig on ‘Openess’: TED Talk
Google won't make us stupid
“Most experts agree that Google won’t make us stupid.” PREDICTIONS Read More
Golden Rules for Keeping Safe Online
Read Write Web recently posted a story that I thought would garner more comments. I suspect it only had three, as most people agree with Europe’s 17 Golden Rules for Keeping Safe on Social Networks but are breaking some of them out of neccessity. This is what I mean. The following three ‘European rules’ When joining a social networking site use your personal e-mail address (not your company e-maill address) Use a pseudonym Do... Read More
'How Has The Internet Changed The Way You Think?'
Here are the best answers you are likely to read, compiled by the Edge Foundation at their World Question Centre, to this important question. The following passage, from Tim O’Reilly‘s musings on the question, Pattern Recognition, made me reflect about the challenges of staying ‘educated’ and being and ‘educator’ in our ever-shifting culture: “It used to be the case that there was a canon, a... Read More
Social Media Revolution
Thanks to Jane Hart for this one. Read More
The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube and the Politics of Authenticity
Connected?
This IBM commercial makes me think about our still very disconnected classrooms. Read More
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