Alert readers (both of you) will have noticed a new link on the right. You may also have noticed that I’ve changed the title ‘Blogroll’ to the more appropriate (and accurate) ‘Links’. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Nicholas Carr
Some worthy reading
I browse The Browser (despite their new subscription policy). I dally with Arts and Letters Daily. I am cheered by Open Culture. Yes, I find plenty of good reading on the internet, and this post is a snippet of some interesting stuff out there (IMHO). Continue reading
Not everyone likes Khan Academy
Google supports it. Bill Gates loves it – so much so that he’s donated significant funds to it, and apparently his children are using it. It’s more popular that MIT’s Open Courseware (in terms of numbers of views, anyway). So who could possibly be unhappy with Khan Academy? Continue reading
We are making Google smarter
Why is Google following me? Why do I now see advertisements for funeral insurance on my webmail page? I know I’m old, but c’mon! And right now I’m getting hotel and travel tips scattered around my regular websites, such as The Age. Just to make this perfectly clear, I’m looking at an Australian online newspaper, but am working briefly in Penang, Malaysia, and am also seeing ads for Penang hotels and restaurants. Continue reading
The questionable classroom
We’re all pretty taken with the new technology and the learning environments we’re able to construct, so it does us good to be pulled up every now and then and questioned about our blithe enthusiasm and at times unwarranted assumptions. Continue reading