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 Search is highly overrated. I have a serious problem. As I build presentations I get a clear vision of an idea or concept I want to discuss and I immediately want to visualize it. For better or worse, I gain and make meaning with visuals. To that end I’ve continued to create slides that I reuse [...]  cc licensed flickr photo shared by Will Lion As this article states, the problem of attention isn’t particularly new but it certainly is becoming more and more an issue. I remember teachers back in the 1980’s lamenting that they felt they were competing with the MTV generation. MTV seems pretty tame and managable compared to what we [...]  Smarter people than I have written about this article by Clay Shirky but this quote hit me like a ton of bricks. This clearly points to the need and urgency to rethink many things we’ve always understood.  Growing up, my parents had a very active social life. A huge part of this involved the “pop-in”. This was the spur of the moment visit to friends with simply a quick phone call to say, “we’ll be over in 15 minutes, put the coffee on”, or sometimes just showing up at someone’s house. This [...]  Not that this is the definitive reason for the web but certainly the potential for collective action for good needs to be emphasized and highlighted as teachers and schools work with students to move beyond the “looking up stuff” mentality. Tom’s shoes (thanks to a tweet by Terry Storch) is a great example of corporations willing [...] |
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