Monthly Archives: February 2014
Tips for Troubleshooting Your Computer, Courtesy of The Onion
Tips for Troubleshooting Your Computer, Courtesy of The Onion Even the most experienced user can run into error messages, software crashes, hardware malfunctions, and other issues with their computer. Here are some tips for keeping your machine running smoothly: Unexplained … Continue reading
DS106 Daily Create #770
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Richard Dawkins, “Net Gain”
Man, Richard Dawkins hates religion. The sum of this essay is that we are now connected in a way that seemed impossible years ago, and that will seem silly years from now. This interconnection is turning us into a kind-of … Continue reading
Daily Create #4: Zoho.com
My daily internet go-to is Zoho Mail. I’m an e-mail addict–I check it about every 20 minutes, even though Zoho Mail gets pushed to my iPhone and iPad, and I usually have a tab open so I can see if … Continue reading
Sherry Turkle, “How Computers Change the Way We Think”
This article suffers from many of the classic flaws in discriminatory and invalidating thinking about computers/the computing generation that I’ve explored in other annotations, but I think some of them are successfully answered by Gardner & Davis and others. Turkle … Continue reading
The Brain Technology Built: An Interview with Dr. Gary Small
Originally posted on N E U R O N A R R A T I V E:
“If you think our incessant use of the Internet, Blackberrys, iPods, text-messaging and video games has changed our lives and our children’s lives,…
Howard Gardner and Katie Davis, The App Generation
I read around in this book, though one day when I have time, I’d like to sit down and read the rest. Overall, I’m not appalled by this, which is more than I can say for most publications about the … Continue reading
Digital A-Rae 