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Amanda Nichols

Portland high schools take byte out of laptop use at home | The Portland Press Herald /... - 0 views

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    From Portland, ME - school-provided technology devices (in this case, laptops) will be filtered at home as well as at school.  This represents a policy shift for a state that pioneered 1:1.
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GoogleWebSearchEducation - 2 views

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    How to search by Google. In most cases, a simple search works really well. But for more specialized questions, a bit of instruction in how to search improves all searcher--from middle school students to trained professionals--and lets you discover and use more, higher quality sources than ever before.
Amanda Nichols

The rise of e-reading | Pew Internet Libraries - 0 views

  • A fifth of American adults have read an e-book in the past year and the number of e-book readers grew after a major increase in ownership of e-book reading devices and tablet computers during the holiday gift-giving season
  • The average reader of e-books says she has read 24 books (the mean number) in the past 12 months, compared with an average of 15 books by a non-e-book consumer.
  • Some 41% of tablet owners and 35% of e-reading device owners said they are reading more since the advent of e-content.
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  • There are four times more people reading e-books on a typical day now than was the case less than two years ago
  • E-book reading happens across an array of devices, including smartphones.
  • In a head-to-head competition, people prefer e-books to printed books when they want speedy access and portability, but print wins out when people are reading to children and sharing books with others
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    Pew study on the use of ereaders, ebooks, and ereading
Amanda Nichols

FACEBOOK: LIKE? | More Intelligent Life - 0 views

  • The internet allows three things, broadly speaking: access to content (video, music, things to read), self-expression (blogs, Twitter) and communication (e-mail, chat, Skype). Facebook competes with it on all these fronts
  • “If you’re a start-up today, you can leverage the world’s largest social network. For free. Why would you want to do the really hard thing, which is recreate a social network, when what you can do is focus on the technology you want to build, and use the one that already exists?”
  • “You didn’t come to Facebook because we’re so awesome. You came to Facebook because your friends are awesome. They’re doing interesting things and you want to know about it. Time that you’re spending conscious of Facebook as a thing probably means we made a mistake.”
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  • The culture of “why not this too?” keeps the giant growing and constantly changing. 
  • The plain lower-case logo looks almost sorry to bother you. Tiffani Jones Brown, who oversees the writing of much of the text on the site, says that its personality must be nothing more than “simple, human, clear and consistent”. The music app is called…Music. The photos app is called Photos. The message service is called Messages. Everything on the site is to be written so that an 11-year-old can read it—even though Facebook likes its users to be at least 13.
  • This highlights a key feature of Facebook: it is the anti-Apple. Apple’s products are designed down to their molecules so that you never forget who made them. The colours, fonts and distinctive shapes give Apple an ever-present personality. This reflects the top-down, “we know best” culture cultivated for decades by the brilliant authoritarian Steve Jobs. Facebook could not be more different. “‘Authority’ is just not a word here,” Bosworth says with a laugh. “It’s not a thing we use.”
  • “The things people complain about in real life, it’s like they rediscovered them on Facebook. It’s like gossip never existed before, as if your history never followed you around before. I’m not saying there’s not some differences—but these aren’t Facebook problems, they’re just fundamentally human problems.”
  • Even if Facebook should fall—as Friendster and MySpace rose and fell—its reverberations will be lasting. Google made the internet navigable. Apple made it portable, through intuitive, brilliant devices. Now Facebook has made it social, raising a generation that will never again expect things to be otherwise.
  • Facebook has not replaced social life. It has tightened the social fabric, in a way that fits many people, and which many just as clearly chafe against. The social ills ascribed to it are, by and large, not new. Once people suffered from hysteria and melancholy; in the modern age, they have anxiety and depression. Once they suffered gossiping and bullying; now it’s “Facebook official” drama and cyber-bullying. Once they could envy the greener grass on their neighbour’s side; now it’s “Facebook anxiety” about his (or, more likely, her) online photos. Once they wondered if their social lives were fulfilling enough; now they suffer FOMO—fear of missing out—and get to see all the pictures from the party they weren’t invited to. New labels for old problems. But these problems are larger-looming and becoming ever-present for the mill
  • ions who can’t get enough of their social networks
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    Interesting article on how Facebook permeates daily life and online interactions
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