Let’s look at a few of the highlights from Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle.
Tag: technology
Your New Textbook, Brought to You by Bill Gates
Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold have filed a new patent that could change the way we read textbooks, and possibly the way we learn, forever. Bored of reading the same textbooks, the same old way? Well, Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold, the duo behind an invention that can actually slow hurricanes, are looking to change…
Social Media and the Classroom: How to Use Vine
Social media is already transforming classrooms. If you teach, there's a good chance you've used Twitter, Facebook, and even Pinterest to draw your students' attention to their work in exciting new ways. But now there's a new app on the scene: Vine. Luckily the blog at OnlineUniversities.com was on hand to help us all become…
Digital Learning Day Brings Technology into the Classroom
Yesterday marked the second annual celebration of "Digital Learning Day," the culmination of a year-long focus to utilize the power of technology in more classrooms nationwide. But we're not just talking about throwing iPads into classrooms in the hopes of engaging students' short attention spans. No, the ideas employed in classrooms and libraries around the…
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The Enchantress of Numbers
The curious tale of the world's first computer programmer. Today I stray a little from the ordinary literary and educational news updates, after coming across a nod to an exceptional woman I couldn't pass the day without commemorating, not only for her role in mathematics, but also for her role as a woman in mathematics,…
Some Take-Aways from Twitter’s Fiction Festival
As promised in last week's post on Twitter's Fiction Festival, here's a round up of a few standouts of the online event, which finished this past Sunday. Four things I took away from the festival, besides learning how to read from the ground up: 1. My personal favorite was Andrew Pyper's sinister adaptation of Thomas…
2002 Has No Idea What You’re Talking About, 2012!
A couple of years ago, my then 10-year-old son declared that "everything is the best it could ever be." He was quite sure that, new iPhone in hand, nothing could surpass the (then) current marvels of the Modern World. I was just as sure that everything could and would be surpassed. Twenty-five years ago, if you told…
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Searching for the Words
How to turn your next Google search into poetry. The Dadaists of the 1920s developed an interesting poetic technique you may have tried yourself, that of cutting up a text and rearranging its words to create a whole new work. Yes, before you crafted dirty limericks on your fridge with a packet of word magnets,…