by andflywrite | Oct 17, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
Marshall McLuhan was a fountain of ideas that seemed to never run dry. So there’s a huge volume of “things to think about” in all his books, interviews, etc…for starters. But then there’s also his writing and thinking style to get up to...
by andflywrite | Oct 15, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
There’s a new 5G contest to encourage edtech innovation, sponsored by Verizon and NY Media Lab and others. The Verizon 5G EdTech Challenge is a nationwide open call to find innovative, cutting-edge, education technologies that will transform middle school...
by andflywrite | Oct 15, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
Here’s an extensive report on Childhood and Tech, as seen through the activities of the non profit Common Sense Media.
by andflywrite | Oct 11, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
from an Amazon lay reviewer of Gutenberg Galaxy: Gutenberg Galaxy is the original book that describes how the “fact of the presence of a particular “medium”, in this case printing, changes knowledge and how we perceive knowledge The Greeks had...
by andflywrite | Oct 11, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
In June 1959, the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) approved a proposal by Marshall McLuhan for a study of media. This became the book “Gutenberg’s Galaxy” which was itself the forerunner to his seminal “Understanding...
by andflywrite | Oct 9, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
Eliot Masie is frequently abreast of latest trends in EdTech, and he, among others, is currently promoting the exploration of how Blockchain tech/ internet system might support effective learning. The data world is experimenting and deploying BlockChain as a model for...