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Chris Harrow

The 100-Year March of Technology in 1 Graph - Derek Thompson - Technology - The Atlantic - 3 views

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history technology graph atlantic

shared by Chris Harrow on 10 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Chris Harrow on 10 Apr 12
     
    I don't know all the places this could be used, but the graph in this article contains a STUNNING amount of information. I think the math is obvious, but I envision some phenomenal social science lessons, technology insights, the evolution of science, the implied connections to the ability of societies to spread information, the differences in cost of the various innovations and why that matters .... Hope you find something cool.
Chris Harrow

The 11 Ways That Consumers Are Hopeless at Math - Derek Thompson - The Atlantic - 2 views

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psychology shopping consumers application

shared by Chris Harrow on 21 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • The flip-side is that bargains literally make us feel good about ourselves. Even the most useless junk in the world is appealing if the price feels like a steal.
  • Chris Harrow on 21 Aug 12
     
    Some interesting consumer math points that apply to us all -- teachers, students, and broader community.  How can we help our students (and our own minds!) grasp these points?
Chris Harrow

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Magazine - The Atlantic - 1 views

www.theatlantic.com/...6868

google technology brain attention information thinking

shared by Chris Harrow on 22 Jan 12 - Cached
  • media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought.
  • what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation
  • Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking—perhaps even a new sense of the self. “
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  • “For us, working on search is a way to work on artificial intelligence.”
  • In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas. Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking.
  • Chris Harrow on 22 Jan 12
     
    Older article saying technology may be changing our ability to read, think, and produce deep works.
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