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Phil Taylor

Teaching with Google Wave - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • In fact, Wave is extremely powerful groupware, designed to facilitate the interactions of groups working together on projects
Phil Taylor

Is the Internet Making Us Quick but Shallow?| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

  • As important as it is to be able to find lots of information quickly, what's even more important is to be able to think deeply about the information once we've found it. We need to slow down.
Phil Taylor

Texting Education | The Committed Sardine - 1 views

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    Taking advantage of the computer in their pocket.
Phil Taylor

Mind Over Mass Media| The Committed Sardine - 1 views

  • NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, paperbacks and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers’ brainpower and moral fiber.
  • Experience does not revamp the basic information-processing capacities of the brain. Speed-reading programs have long claimed to do just that, but the verdict was rendered by Woody Allen after he read “War and Peace” in one sitting: “It was about Russia.” Genuine multitasking, too, has been exposed as a myth, not just by laboratory studies but by the familiar sight of an S.U.V. undulating between lanes as the driver cuts deals on his cellphone.
  • And to encourage intellectual depth, don’t rail at PowerPoint or Google. It’s not as if habits of deep reflection, thorough research and rigorous reasoning ever came naturally to people. They must be acquired in special institutions, which we call universities, and maintained with constant upkeep, which we call analysis, criticism and debate.
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