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Dozens of studies by psychologists, neurobiologists, and educators point to the same conclusion: When we go online, we enter an environment that promotes cursory reading, hurried and distracted thinking, and superficial learning. Even as the Internet grants us easy access to vast amounts of information, it is turning us into shallower thinkers, literally changing the structure of our brain.

What we’re experiencing is, in a metaphorical sense, a reversal of the early trajectory of civilization: We are evolving from cultivators of personal knowledge into hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest. In the process, we seem fated to sacrifice much of what makes our minds so interesting.

Some general comments on the “Twitter Experiment”

I used twitter in the basic U.S. History II survey course at U.T. Dallas in the spring 2009 semester. 

Digital Workshops Online Resources for Parents and Educators

Collaborative multimedia presentations enable small groups like teaching teams to work together to: present knowledge in different and (if you do it right) compelling ways engage active participation by the entire class instead of broadcasting to it like a passive audience

What does Facebook publish about you and your friends?

Russian Hacker Selling 1.5 Million Facebook Accounts

It’s generally a good idea to change your password periodically. It’s also advisable to ensure that your social networking passwords are all different and to generate difficult passwords that include numbers, capital letters and special characters, if at all possible. Roboform, PassPack and KeePass are a few free or affordable resources to help you manage your online passwords in a secure fashion.

Pourquoi je n’utiliserai plus Facebook

Facebook devient la pieuvre hyper-tentaculaire du Web : avec son nouveau système d’authentification et sa nouvelle fonction de recommandation, vous serez connectés à facebook à chaque fois que vous allez sur un site lié.

Intimacy 2.0: Privacy Rights and Privacy Responsibilities on the World Wide Web

This paper examines the idea of privacy in the world of ‘intimacy 2.0’, the use of Web 2.0 social networking technologies and multimedia for the routine posting of intimate details of users’ lives. It will argue that, although privacy is often conceived as a right with benefits that accrue to the individual, it is better seen as a public good, whose benefits accrue to the community in general. In that case, the costs of allowing invasions of one’s privacy do not solely fall on the individual who is unwise enough to do so, but also on wider society.