Is Google making us stupid, as Nicholas Carr and others have told us? I don’t think so. Instead, it is making us differently intelligent. Carr, et al are simply judging this difference, the new type of intelligence, against the old standards. In his article The War On Flow, 2009: Why Studies About Multitasking Are Missing [...]
Also tagged 2.0, Books, Complexity, DeliberatePractice, learning, Life, Social Networking, Work, WorkLiteracyI’m working on a new post to address the question “Is modern technology ‘dumbing down’ America’s youth?“, as posed in the most recent edition (22 July 09) of the local news weekly – West News Magazine. (The html version of the article isn’t available as of my writing this, but you can read it here.) [...]
Also tagged 2.0, Education, learning, Life, parenting, technology, ToolsThis is a repost of The toys of today, the tools of tomorrow, which I originally posted in April 2008. – – — — —– ——– The toys of today, the tools of tomorrow At the end of a brief history of human communication, Dave Gray of XPLANE gets to what he sees as the [...]
Also tagged 2.0, learning, play, Tools, VisualBack in November ’07 I signed up for Shelfari, the self-described “premier social network for people who love books.” Up till that point I had been keeping a book list in my handy-dandy notebook (I’m still a bit low-tech in some areas). This was about the time I was jumping into the world of social [...]
Also tagged Books, Social NetworkingI wrote my recent post Take Me As I Am with a specific, and intentional, slant towards autism and autistic individuals. However, the feelings expressed are not limited to those with autism, as any young teenage rebel can attest. In Generation Y in the Workplace Explained, guest poster Teresa Wu gives a Gen Y perspective [...]
Also tagged Boomer, Gen X, Gen Y, transparencyIn Communications During Terrorist Attacks are Not Bad, Bruce Schneier calls Twitter a “vital source of information” during the recent attacks in Mumbai. But not everyone agrees, as there were reports that Indian authorities were trying to get people to stop posting information, apparently fearing that the terrorists would be able to use this information. To that, Bruce [...]
Also tagged 2.0, Flickr, Mumbai, Schneier, Security, Tools, TwitterWhen people with autism or other disabilities try to engage in face-to-face communications, it is often made difficult because of a bias, intentional or not, on the part of the other person in the conversation. Another aspect of the value of social media to autistic people and others with various disabilities is the fact that [...]
Also tagged ableism, acceptance, Asperger's Syndrome, autism, disabilitiesAs I’ve started exploring social media a bit more seriously recently, I’ve taken a fresh look at LinkedIn. Since I first signed up, more and more people I know have started using LinkedIn as well – or at least they’ve signed up. I’ve also reconnected with a few folks from way back, so that’s been [...]
Also tagged 2.0, connecting, LinkedIn, Social Networking, YouTubeA common misconception about autistic individuals is that they shun social contact, that they are all introverts. But in many cases it is simply the means – not the desire - to be social that eludes them. Face-to-face, real-time conversation can be difficult, but it is not because their there is no interest in communicating. [...]
Also tagged autism, FaceBook, Knowledge Management, MySpace, Ning, Second LifeAccording to Venkatesh Rao in his Enterprise 2.0 Blog post Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War, KM and SM are indeed at war, albeit an undeclared one. Kind of. Following a brief history of events that made him come this conclusion, he provides 5 social and 5 technical dimensions of this war: Social: [...]
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