e difference between quick skimming and scanning on the Web, which lodges in the brain's short-term memory and is quickly lost, and the long-term memories that a more thoughtful kind of slow reading provides. "I share Nicholas Carr's feeling that my brain has been rewired," he says.
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Over the Rainbow: History Through a Pop Music Lens | Edutopia - 2 views
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"I urge more history teachers to embrace music, including rock'n'roll, as effective and legitimate primary sources. In eight years of teaching, I have found no other way to engage student interest as quickly and effectively -- pushing the door wide open to other types of learning activities and assignments. Consider a few of my examples when teaching the following units."
To Teach Effective Writing, Model Effective Writing | Edutopia - 3 views
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"When I was a kid, every weekend, my parents would drive me to Loon Mountain in New Hampshire to master the sport of skiing -- and downhill racing, in particular. On the chairlift, my instructors would critique the technique of those skiing below us. On the racecourse, I would spend hours studying and eventually trying to mimic the most experienced racers. I can't overstate the importance of effective modeling in helping me become an amazing skier. Effective modeling is also how I learned to write well. I spent equal time and effort actually watching other, more experienced writers write."
Are iPads, Smartphones, and the Mobile Web Rewiring the Way We Think?| The Committed Sa... - 4 views
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"It's indisputable that the Internet has made us smarter.... The range of things you can explore in a day is just fantastic compared to 20 years ago," says David Weinberger, senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. "There's no question that we feel the Internet has made us better researchers, better thinkers, better writers."
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Books "are not the shape of knowledge," he says. "They're a limitation on knowledge." The idea of a single author presenting her ideas "was born of the limitations of paper publishing. It's not necessarily the only way or the best way to think and to write."
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"e difference between quick skimming and scanning on the Web, which lodges in the brain's short-term memory and is quickly lost, and the long-term memories that a more thoughtful kind of slow reading provides. "I share Nicholas Carr's feeling that my brain has been rewired," he says."
If technology is making us stupid, it's not technology's fault | DMLcentral - 1 views
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Vigdor and Ladd are to be applauded for emphasizing that it is not the technology, but the social conditions of their use that are the most compelling concerns in play here.
Compact Calendar 2011 | David Seah - 8 views
An Intro to the Hottest Social Networks - Video Library - The New York Times - 5 views
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"An Intro to the Hottest Social Networks A basic course on social networking, for those who don't know Twitter from Foursquare."
Grow Your Personal Learning Network by David Warlick - 6 views
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March/April 2009 Learning & Leading with Technology
Grow Your Personal Learning Network by David Warlick PDF - 0 views
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Learning & Leading with Technology | March/April 2009
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