“The big idea of giving PCs to poor children has been challenged by educators and business. Here, follow the misadventures of One Laptop per Child”
Month: June 2008
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
What the Internet is doing to our brains
Article from the Atlantic
Encyclopaedia Britannica Goes — Gasp! — Wiki
The Theory and Practice of Online Learning
The Theory and Practice of Online Learning
Edited by Terry Anderson
“Every chapter in the widely distributed first edition has been updated, and four new chapters on current issues such as connectivism and social software innovations have been added. Essays by practitioners and scholars active in the complex, diverse, and rapidly evolving field of distance education blend scholarship and research; practical attention to the details of teaching and learning; and mindful attention to the economics of the business of education.”
Morning Becomes Electric: Post-Modern Scholarly Information Access, Organization, and Navigation
“Scholars are facing unprecedented Information Overload in their attempts to identify potentially relevant information sources. Electronic networks have not only expedited traditional forms of publishing but created new formal and informal opportunities for communication. Conventional methods of information management are reaching the limits of their effectiveness. To enhance access to information in the coming decades, systems that fully utilize the digital nature of a growing number of scholarly resources must be implemented.”
Computer Literacy Tests: Are You Human?
“Every web surfer, in the course of his or her browsing, has been forced to stop and perform this weird little task: look at a picture of some wavy, ghostly, distorted letters and type them into a box. Sometimes you flub it and have to retype the letters, but otherwise you don’t think about it much. That string of letters has a name; it’s called a CAPTCHA. And it’s a test. By correctly transcribing it, you have proved to the computer that you are a human being…”