"What if we divided screen time into three categories: creative, interactive, and passive, then further divided our best content by skill-building, educational, and entertainment?"
"A commonplace book is a central resource or depository for ideas, quotes, anecdotes, observations and information you come across during your life and didactic pursuits."
information overload in historical context - a database containing 4358 entries on 93 themes all revolving around how we organise and process ever-expanding reams of information.
"Born-digital, open source, media-rich scholarly publishing that's as easy as blogging." Seems to have some interesting possibilities for innovative publications and visualisations.
"students are directed to unpack their own selfies for signifiers of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and other identity markers, and to write a thesis-driven essay based on this analysis"
"The goal of a blended approach is to join the best bits of face-to-face and online instruction. Classroom time can be used more effectively, for instance to cover challenging concepts or to address questions students may have on a current topic. Meanwhile, the online portion of the course can provide learners with multimedia-rich content at any time of day, accessed from college computer labs, on the move or at home, providing flexibility and convenience for learners."
"Today's schools are focusing on boosting kids' technological proficiency and warning them about the perils of the web. But something critical is missing from this education."