21st Century Literacies: Howard Rheingold
I've spent the morning rereading some of Howard Rheingold's ideas on 21st century literacies, the skills required to navigate the digital age. Attention, participation, collaboration, network...
View ArticleAttention, Please! Attention, Please!
This week we've all been awash in articles about how our attention is being destroyed, our brain shrunken, our affections diverted, and all by new media. Really? Oh, come on, everyone! It's time to...
View ArticleThe Internet is Not Rotting Our Brain!
The ever-wise Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons have just written what is the calmest, clearest, sanest refutation I've seen of the "internet is making us dumber" argument. They have decoupled...
View ArticleHere's How the Brain Science of Attention Really Works
So, here I am, with a week to turn around the copy edited ms for Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Change the Ways We Live, Work, and Learn (Viking Press) and the sun is finally...
View ArticleFour Indispensable Methods for Organizing Group Attention
Over the next few weeks, I will blogging about all of the ideas and insights and keynotes and applications and everything else we took away from the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival on Learning, Freedom, and...
View ArticleWhy Doesn't Anyone Pay Attention Anymore?
This is a response to yet another article about why kids today don't pay attention. Matt Richtel, in the November 21, 2010, New York Times, has written a long piece, with lots of anecdotal evidence...
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Another take on "Growing up Digital." Distinguishing between Distraction and...
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View ArticleCan A Device Really Help Us Pay Attention?
It's that wonderful time in a semester when the grades have been turned in and a prof can look back on a rich, rewarding experience where all the students have done well and all have participated and...
View ArticlePlastic Bags in Trees: A Primer in the Brain Science of Attention
In the UK they call them "witches' britches." They are the plastic bags that escape from landfills and become caught seemingly forever in the unreachable tree branches, littering the landscape with...
View ArticleAttention Deficit or Difference: Video Games v. Cricket
Ravi sits staring with rapt attention at the small Nintendo screen, oblivious to the sixteen academics--all adults--surrounding him at the buffet dinner party at our conference. At one point, several...
View ArticleIt's Not the Technology, Stupid! Response to NYT "Twitter Trap"
For HASTAC readers too young to understand the reference in my title, here's a bit of history: Long, long ago, way back in the past millennium even, Bill Clinton ran a successful presidential campaign...
View ArticleKids Are Wired Differently--Reblog from The Huffington Post
This post originally appeared at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-m-eger/kids-are-wired-differentl_1_b_906289.html By John M. Eger, Author and Lecturer on Creativity and Innovation, Education and...
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The NEUROHUMANITIES RESEARCH GROUP @ Duke invites you to a semester of events...
The NEUROHUMANITIES RESEARCH GROUP (Duke Institute for Brain Science [DIBS] and Franklin Humanities Institute [FHI]) invites your participation in a fall 2011 semester of events on READING AND THE...
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Chapter Four: Paying Attention to the Chocolate-Covered Broccoli: How Video...
Chapter Four:Paying Attention to the Chocolate-Covered Broccoli:How Video Games Can Change the Ways You Understand Teaching, Learning, and Knowledge Cristiane Sommer Damasceno read more
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