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Bibliography: Texting in class
I’m working on a project that will measure the effect that texting and facebooking in class has on students’ performance. To that end, this is my ever-growing bibliography of relevant links. If you know of a resource I don’t have, … Continue reading
Blog writing software – again I like MS!
That last post was written in Windows Live Writer, Microsoft’s blog writing software that’s part of Live. And, as much as I hate to admit it, Live Writer is the best blogging software that I’ve tried. Blogdesk just didn’t cut … Continue reading
Oops, I think I like MS Office again
So I’ve been spending the week helping get a really complex Excel sheet turned into a pseudo computer program. Initial thought: Ah, crap. I’ve got to deal with Office again? At most I’ve done some writing in Word, but I’ve … Continue reading
Posthuman Website Design
Ok, so I’ve got to admit that I’m relatively new to a bunch of theories I really should know better. Posthumanism is definitely one of those. So is UX website design (user experience, for those who are further behind than … Continue reading
A Computer-Driven “Black Friday”?
The financial world is all abuzz with the stock market’s performance yesterday. The Dow dropped 9% in a matter of minutes, and then climbed back 6% in just a few more minutes. No one really knows why yet. There’s rumors … Continue reading
Millennials and Attention Spans
An interesting perspective hit me the other day when I was thinking about the millennial generation and their perceived short attention span. At least in my experience, baby boomers tend to think of the millennial generation as being very impatient … Continue reading
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Tagged education, knowledge creation, knowledge gap, Millenial Generation, social media, technology
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Virtual Reality Revisited (part 1)
Kind readers, kindly be patient with me as I stretch this next idea out over several posts. I’ve decided to start a multi-week series on virtual reality, or rather revisiting the concept in the context of a Web 2.0/social media/cloud … Continue reading
The Internet Bus (Part II)
Well, the post last week elicited enough interest that I thought a follow-up may be in order. Last week, I laid out my complaints of the deployment of “technology” in public schools (technology is in quotes, as I’m purposefully misusing … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching
Tagged community service, education, knowledge creation, mobile browsing, social media, technology
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The Internet Bus
There was a fascinating story in the NYTimes on Friday about a school in Tucson who launched a pilot Yellow Bus + wifi. They have apparently equipped one of their school buses with a mobile wifi hot-spot that students can … Continue reading
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Tagged community service, education, knowledge gap, mobile browsing, technology
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