There has been a lot of hubub recently about the article “Is Google making us stupid?” by Nicholas Carr. It was in the most recent issue of The Atlantic. The basic gist of the article is that because we’re reading so much information online, we can’t comprehend lengthy articles anymore and thus it’s [...]
Evidently people in the 18-34 age range often suffer from newstritional disorder according to a recent study. It’s a completely made up term but it means that people my age can only handle news in small amounts or as they say in this Time article, bite-sized pieces.
I suppose this doesn’t really surprise me because [...]
Forgive me if I’m behind the times, but I don’t always get to things that I see in Educause right away. I just read an article by Joan Lipnicott called “Student Content Creators: Convergence of Literacies” (PDF) that argues that information & technology literacy skills can be combined through a more rigorous or proscribed [...]
Are experts really making a comeback on the web? Is the “cult of the amateur” a thing of the past? The Newsweek article “Revenge of the Experts” by Tony Dokupil seems to suggest that the new Web 2.0 will be focused on experts who write, for pay, online content. This got [...]
These are all things that I asw recently that are worth checking out:
“Civil War Letters of Forrest Little“
This collection includes 23 letters (September 1861- July 1862) from Forrest Little (1843-1862) of Crown Point, Essex County, New York, to his parents, Henry and Amanda Little. Forrest enlisted in Company F of [...]
