Archive for the 'Academia' Category
At universities, is better learning a click away?
March 8th, 2010AP – “The students in Michael Dubson’s physics class at the University of Colorado fell silent as a multiple choice question flashed on a screen, sending them scrambling for small white devices on their desks. Within seconds, a monitor on Dubson’s desk told him that 92 percent of the class had correctly answered the question [...]
Textbooks That Professors Can Rewrite Digitally
February 22nd, 2010NYT – “Readers can modify content on the Web, so why not in books?”
Big Think
January 12th, 2008Big Think – “This is a digital age, one in which a wealth of accessible information empowers you, the citizen-consumer. But where is the information coming from? How accurate and unprocessed is it, really? Ask yourself this: how empowered do you feel debating a television screen or a newspaper?” (via)
