by andflywrite | Oct 18, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
McLuhan is famously hard to summarize or to structure hierarchically… or to put into a short elevator speech describing and revealing what he was/ is all about. This YouTube audio lecture is one of the more accessible ways in to Understanding McLuhan, but...
by andflywrite | Oct 18, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
Elliott Masie’s annual big EdTech and Learning conference in Florida takes place in early November this year. This huge event is extremely comprehensive and tends to include at least a little of everything going on in EdTech currently. (100 pages…worth at...
by andflywrite | Oct 17, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
The challenge of “A New Place” is so broad, comprehensive, and yet deep all at the same time, that perhaps the best way forward, rather than trying to synthesize everything into one big package, would be to create a list of relevant factors....
by andflywrite | Oct 17, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
If we apply some of McLuhan’s perspectives on media, we might be able to explain why suddenly Podcasts seem to have “come into their own”, with greatly increased “listenership”. Marshall would say, of course, podcasts are aural, and this...
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...
