“I have a classroom full of riders and elephants, but I’m trying to teach the riders”
“I teach theory and practice of social media at NYU, and am an advocate and activist for the free culture movement, so I’m a pretty unlikely candidate for
“Let’s allow teenagers to discover” that online freedom “is in many ways an illusion”
Annie Murphy Paul has a piece in Slate on counter-marketing campaigns that reduced teen smoking, and how they could serve as a model to help kids become more
Phrase of the day: Notorious learning
David Banks, writing in The Society Pages, talks about the rise of “notorious learning:" Notorious learning is the conspicuous consumption of information. It requires admitting ignorance of an
Graphic from my NAIS talk
While I finish writing up the notes from my NAIS talk-- I've got deadlines at work, kids' sports practices, and several recent interviews with people who organize digital
How technologies are designed to commodify distraction
[This is the second of several posts drawing on my the talk I gave at the NAIS annual conference. The first is here.] How are technologies designed to distract
The need for a social approach to distraction
[This is a post drawing on my the talk I gave at the NAIS annual conference.] We use the term "distraction" in two broad ways. Both involve situations
NAIS
This week my wife and I were at the National Association of Independent Schools annual conference. I was giving a talk on contemplative computing and efforts by schools
High-tech toddlers “are apparently struggling to pick up basic fine-motor skills”
Granted, this is from the Daily Mail, which tends to the alarmist and anecdotal, so take it with a grain of salt: Toddlers these days are barely out
Students “could not go for 15 minutes without engaging their devices”
So reports Larry Rosen, a professor who studies multitasking among students. He recently did a study in which students from middle school through college were told to “study something
“The problem is not email. The problem is people.”
Jon Mitchell (who wrote a nice piece on Digital Detox) on "How to Train Your Internet Friends:" The problem here at the dawn of the Information Age is