I had intended today to write today about the odd fracture in the recent ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, a fracture between Chris Dede’s “technology as world changer” intro, and the rather pedestrian “technology as customer service” bias of the questions posed by the actual report.
I say “intended”, because when I went [...]
Sep
15
2007
15
2007
The hypocisy of the recent ECAR study
Jul
30
2007
30
2007
Where will the wave come from?
I love talking the theory, but it’s even nicer to see practical notes from people implementing solutions. From a recent post over here, some Wordpress MU as class-space experimentation…
Teachers are finding WordPress MU easy to use and I’m very happy to see that. Currently, Teacher Assistants are recording students as they read their writings [...]
Jun
22
2007
22
2007
Messaging, Phatic Overhead, and the Right to Connect
There’s a number of articles, none of which I’ve read, that propose (or assume) that SMS messaging is used as a phatic system.
Under this analysis SMS is like the chatter of the monkeys in trees, a chatter which is primarily used to say
“Are you still there?”
“Yep. You?”
“Yep. Still here. How about now?”
And if you look [...]