July 2008
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Education
The War on Illiteracy
The New York Times recently published Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?, another entry in the arena of IT Literacy versus reading. The article wasn’t particularly interesting, but this little nugget caught my eye…
The kinds of skills Zachary has developed — locating information quickly and accurately, corroborating findings on multiple sites — may seem [...] -
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Stuck in a Funk
So, so far, I’ve finished reading The Dumbest Generation, am working on reading both Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is Near and William Easterly’s The White Man’s Burden. But I’ve been in a total writer’s block and haven’t thoght of anything clever to say.
In time, I’ll write a critique of Bauerlein’s book, but until them, I [...]
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