Tag: Education
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Cyberinfrastructure…
Cyberinfrastructure is the organized aggregate of technologies enabling access and coordination of information technology resources to facilitate science, engineering, and societal goals. Wow, I just discovered that NSF has been thinking about the big picture of how you would use some of the cool commercial apps and the way sites work in many fields. I…
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Digital Distractions not Novel, Remember Ahab?
Image via Wikipedia I feel like saying “what she said” to this short piece from the NYTimes Magazine by Virginia Heffernan. Her point is that there is nothing new about being so into one idea, game, book, or anything, that you igore everything else. Think Ahab’s unhealthy obsession with Moby Dick, or revisit Tom Sawyer…
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The Time it Takes to Load a Page and Viewer Behavior
Interesting side note: “Generation Y” generally gets slapped with the label of being impatient when it comes to page load times, but did you know that mobile web users over the age of 45 are actually the most impatient of all? The folks at Equation Research tell us this is so. via Cheat Sheet: Everything…
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Tech5 Ideas and Links
All about the Fifth Cycle of Technology – in a short lecture. Related articles by Zemanta What futurists are saying about, well … the future (nationalpost.com) http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js
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‘Meta-reading’: How we will all read now and in the future
‘meta-reading’. It’s not about individual brands. They are fully aware of all the back-stories of all the stories they’re getting,” he says. It’s a ‘degree of sophistication,’ he said, ‘which reads the interests behind the news as an integral part of the news’. “This is something I had to learn. They’re constantly reading two things:…
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The “Bitch” Evolved: Why Girls Are So Cruel to Each Other: Scientific American
And what’s especially sad is that adult authority figures such as teachers and parents often miss such devastating acts of reputational violence because they’re so subtle and often occur “in context”—that is, they’re less conspicuous than the physical altercations of boys. via The “Bitch” Evolved: Why Girls Are So Cruel to Each Other: Scientific American.…
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Slashdot | University Gives Away iPhones To Curb Truancy
“A Japanese University is giving away iPhones to its students to use the phones’ GPS functionality to catch students who skip classes. The University claims students currently fake attendance by having other students answer for them during rollcall, they also said that while this can be abused by giving other students the phone, they are…
Barbara K Iverson 