In light of my recent post on the Penn English class on “Wasting Time on the Internet,” Northwestern student Lucas Matney’s complaint that “Northwestern fails to offer 21st
Okay, after tonight's Game 6 performance a post about the San Francisco Giants' sleep patterns might not be quite the thing it would be if they'd won, but
The Takeaway with John Hockenberry has a brief piece on Scott Barry Kaufmann’s work on the neurological evidence that the same parts of the brain that are most
From a class on “Wasting time on the Internet” at University of Pennsylvania: Using our laptops and a wifi connection as our only materials, this class will focus
Lewis Lapham on how he writes: I didn’t enlist the help of a computer because words so quickly dressed up in the costume of print can pretend to
Courtney Shove, who took the pictures at my Santa Catalina talk, has a nice write-up of the event. My own post about it is here.
No, it’s not a smartphone made of noodles (though that would be awesome); it’s a Danish project for reducing smartphone distraction in the classroom. It’s super-simple: students come
I look forward to seeing this out: Jon Mitchell’s new book, In Real Life: Searching for Connection in High-Tech Times. This is a book about the present and what
Saturday I was at the Santa Catalina School in Monterey, talking about kids, parenting, schools, and contemplative computing (a riff on my book The Distraction Addiction). Photo: Courtney Shove,
I’m going to be at Princeton next week, doing a more academic-than-usual talk on contemplative computing and The Distraction Addiction. I'm appearing there as part of the “Pay Attention: