by andflywrite | Dec 3, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
Gloria Mark, Informatics professor at UC Irvine, has spent a few decades researching what happens when people spend a lot of time online. Is there a limit to how much multitasking one can do and still be productive? Does stress of switching between various processes,...
by andflywrite | Dec 3, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
An “ebook” presentation of events at the recent “Learning 2016” conference hosted by Elliot Massie, the new forms of learning impresario. This ebook format is hosted by their site online, but works pretty well, and is kind of a fun way to cover...
by andflywrite | Dec 3, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
Seems like Mr Musk is in the news everyday, for Tesla, or solar power, or batteries, or space ships, or trips to Mars. Here’s a story on plans for internet access. BTW, Musk has been so successful to date, he’s getting attacked by many status quo interests...
by andflywrite | Dec 3, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER
A recent book, “The Next America: Boomers, Millenials, and the Looming Generational Showdown” confirms it’s plausible to see recent presidential election as a symptom, rather than a cause. The book illustrates how different the US is now than...
by gary575 | Dec 3, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
Another replacement for “digital native”. This effort may eventually play into some of PSA’s interests. Now we are seeing forms of media that are truly made for people’s phones, not just adapted from the web or television or print. And not just on phones: Media have...
by gary575 | Dec 3, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
The article gets a little rambling and suffers from name throwing but I do ascribe to the general push for an optimistic view of technology’s potentially positive impact on society – and how hard it will be to achieve that end.
