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Chris Harrow

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

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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.
Beth Holland

Photo Pin : Free Photos for Your Blog or Website via Creative Commons - 1 views

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photos creativecommons blog cc media

shared by Beth Holland on 11 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Beth Holland on 11 Jan 12
     
    Since Google created its new image search, I've been really frustrated. To do an advanced search, you now have to scroll to the bottom of the page, go back to "basic search", and then choose advanced search. Typically, I look for this feature because I want Creative Commons licensed images that can be reused on either my blog or the EdTechTeacher blog. While I feel like I heard about Photo Pin before, I'm glad that I rediscovered it today - thanks to Richard Byrne at Free Technology for Teachers. This is a great resource for searching for images licensed for reuse.
Chris Harrow

My Favorite Test Question of All Time « Continuous Everywhere but Differentia... - 1 views

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limit calculus precalculus scratch-off

shared by Chris Harrow on 13 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Chris Harrow on 13 Nov 11
     
    Loving this question for all the math reasons, but I'm also pretty psyched about the idea of using scratch-off stickers!
Chris Harrow

Why Are Silicon Valley Executives Sending Their Kids to a Tech-Free School? - Education... - 0 views

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silicon valley executives education Technology

shared by Chris Harrow on 25 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • some Silicon Valley parents—including the chief technology officer of eBay and execs from Google and Apple—are doing a 180 and sending their kids to the area's decidedly low-tech Waldorf school.
Robert Ryshke

At Waldorf School in Silicon Valley, Technology Can Wait - 1 views

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Waldorf education

shared by Robert Ryshke on 23 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 23 Oct 11
     
    LOS ALTOS, Calif. - The chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard. But the school's chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud.
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