Tag / #consciousness
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A Remote Learning Lesson from My Great Aunt Doris
A few months ago, I found an old box of papers from my grandfather’s sister. A career stenographer for most of the 20th century, my mom’s Aunt Doris regular dashed off messages…
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The One Skill Students Need to Learn
A recent promotional blog post on Medium from the startup Tagboard promises, “6 Ways to Increase Your Interactive Storytelling in Higher Education.” Not one of the six recommendations mentions education, classrooms, or…
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Smartphones Don’t Create Our Anxiety
Some sentences just stick with you. I never forgot the following quote from an assigned reading in college. Years later, I would discover the author of the quote, Columbia University Professor Jacques…
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The Most Precise Word in the Dictionary
One of the ideas behind my writing course is that for every classic writing form—the sentence, the citation, the argument, the resume—there is a counterpart on the Web that holds the same…
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Smartphone Cameras Improve How We See
(This is not an April Fool’s joke.) In the summer of 2014, when I started teaching The Interactive Vision, my social media photography course, as an elective at Quinnipiac, a local professor…
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Social Media is the New School Newspaper
A principal recently asked me why project-based learning should involve the Web. It’s a good question. In education, an “artifact” is not something old, but something new: a tangible object created by…
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