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In a post on touchscreens, Edward Tufte pleads for us to to spend less time having a 2-d experience of our 3-d world. Thus, as interesting as it may be to learn something about how PowerPoint kills astronauts, we shouldn’t forget there are richer things to do: Plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a [...More] ‘ Good advice for weekends (or dead astronauts and hot metal) ‘ In the comments, my dear friend Everett remarks on a recent piece (http://nyti.ms/qhON3m) appearing in the NY Times. It is a lament and a diatribe about the decline of the thinker and the rise of the information junkie in an increasingly “post-idea” and “post-Enlightenment” world where our capacity for rational thought has allegedly diminished, despite [...More] ‘ Remistifying “Digital Literacy”? ‘ Over at her New York Times blog, Virginia Heffernan quotes some pretty hyperbolic claims about the future of work in the United States, inter alia, that 65% of jobs which will be held by today’s grade-school kids will be unrecognizable to us – though admittedly, the claim may turn on what how exacting a standard [...More] ‘ Demystifying “Digital Literacy” ‘ Who are these people? It is eminently logical that the reading comprehension tests scores of children and adults alike increase according to the time they spend reading for pleasure. More, it is not surprising that children with more than 100 books in their home score markedly better on standardized tests, including math tests,, than children [...More] ‘ The Cat in the Hat and tests in the bag ‘ |
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