An interesting blog post by Wayne Bivens-Tatum, a Philosophy and Religion Librarian at Princeton University, compared the authorship of the Bible to Wikipedia, a collaboratively-authored encyclopedia. Both works are the result of a myriad of authors, though, depending on your specific religious disposition, you might believe God to be the ultimate author of the former, […]
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Digital Textbooks: Is Steve Jobs the Next Gutenberg?
- Sunday, 20 February 2011 21:23
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When Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in the mid 1400’s, he fundamentally changed the way that information was accessed. Prior to his invention, the creation of books was largely the work of monks, who painstakingly copied them by hand. With the printing press, however, it was now possible to mass-produce books, and at a […]
Social Media: The Big Bad Wolf
- Sunday, 13 February 2011 15:57
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Opinions on whether social media sites should be allowed in primary and secondary schools are often divided between those who believe in an educational value to the sites and those who believe that only evil can come of them. Depending on the person, social media can be either deity or devil. The latter perspective is […]
Escape to . . . Reality?
- Sunday, 06 February 2011 14:50
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A former colleague and friend, Mark Burkholz, had his son’s picture land in The Boston Globe in a feature article titled “Parents seek balance as screens’ allure grows,” an article about the seemingly ever-increasing amount of time that children and teenagers are spending on gaming. In the article, Mark is quoted as stating that these […]
Laptops: Yesterday’s Treasure; Today’s Trash
- Saturday, 29 January 2011 14:51
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Much of the recent emphasis in secondary and primary education, particularly beginning in the early 2000’s, has been on 1:1 laptop initiatives. Such initiatives seek to provide a single laptop to every student enrolled in some subdivision of a school: a grade, an entire school, or even a school district. The working premise of such […]