News from Reading Today Daily : PBS blog will examine how technology is changing education: “The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) yesterday unveiled a new blog called learning.now, which will address how new technology and Internet culture are significantly affecting the…
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Researchers Find Internet Use Has Pros and Cons for Kids
Researchers Find Internet Use Has Pros and Cons for Kids—”The findings show that online interactions provide essential social support for otherwise isolated adolescents, but these online boards may also normalize and encourage self-injurious behavior and add potentially lethal behaviors to…
IRA Convention 2006: the prelude
I come to you this evening from the Hyatt Regency in lovely Chicago. Tomorrow I am to attend sessions and whatnot. This evening we had a ReadWriteThink team dinner at Spiaggia, which was wonderful but so expensive. Nothing like food…
Erasing your cell phone data – Lifehacker
Erasing your cell phone data – Lifehacker—given that my two years are up and I can get a new phone soon, I figured that I better save this.
TechRhet: Tag Literacy
Line56.com: Tag Literacy—now tagging is important and all, but I’m not sure that it’s a new and different literacy.
For Win or Mac: Rip a CD as one continuous MP3 in iTunes – Lifehacker
Rip a CD as one continuous MP3 in iTunes – Lifehacker—while I am not trying to rip an opera to my iPod, this could still be quite handy, especially for some partitioned audio books that I have that always want…
CW2006 Presenation: Lakoff DVD
I’ve watched the companion DVD to the Elephant book, How Democrats and Progressives Can Win: Solutions from George Lakoff, several times this evening—for lazy reasons, as it seemed much easier than slogging all the way through the book and I…
In the News: Beeks reading program is a success
NRVToday.com – Beeks reading program is a success—from the world of strange things from my hometown. Apparently, a bearded dragon is a lizard. While I’m sure that kissing such a lizard is harmless to the human, I do wonder what…
TechRhet: Internet Debate: Preserving User Parity
NPR : Internet Debate: Preserving User Parity—isn’t it interesting that people don’t care to notice that there are fundamental race/class barriers to digital access, but if the conversation is about commercial access, everyone is outraged? Well, if you define everyone…
lost dna
When I notice a stray piece of hair or a jagged, torn fingernail fall to the ground, often I think that I should scoop it up, catch it from its fall and put it in my pocket. I must keep…