Tag: Moby Dick

• 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…

  Barbara Iverson

  November 21, 2010

  Disruptive Tech, Education & Pedogogy

  Education, Elizabeth Vallance, future of education, hidden curriculum, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Moby Dick, New York Times, schools, Tom Sawyer, United States, Virginia Heffernan, World Wide Web