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18 août 2015
17 août 2015
Book review: Teaching and Learning in Digital Worlds
By . However, this doesn’t quite capture for me what the book is really about, so I will discuss a little more closely below some of the themes addressed by individual chapters.
As a point of clarification, I will use the term ‘immersive environments’ as a shorthand to describe simulations, games and virtual reality, a point I will come back to in my comments at the end of this post. More...
16 août 2015
The Afterlife of the Mind
By Scott McLemee. Franz Kafka left explicit directions concerning the journals, letters and manuscripts that would be found following his death: they were to be burned -- all of them -- unread. Whether he expected Max Brod, the executor of his estate, to follow through with his instructions is a matter of some debate. In any case, Brod refused, and the first volume of Kafka’s posthumous works came out shortly after the author’s death in 1925. Read more...
16 août 2015
Motor City, Rusting
By Scott McLemee. In 2011, Paul Clemens, a writer from Detroit published an up-close and personal look at deindustrialization called Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant. It recorded the year he spent on a work team hired to dismantle and gut one of the city’s remaining factories. I wrote about the book when it came out, and won’t recycle anything here, but recall a few paragraphs expressing a particular kind of frustration that a non-Detroiter can only sympathize with, not really share. Read more...
15 août 2015
Review: A Penny For Your Thoughts
By Melonie Fullick. In this post I’m taking a look at the latest book from Claire Polster and Janice Newson, A Penny for Your Thoughts. Polster and Newson have been researching and publishing about corporatization in Canadian universities for (literally) decades, with some of Newson’s earlier work going back to the 1980s (also check out The University Means Business). More...
5 août 2015
College textbook prices have risen 1,041 percent since 1977
By Stefanie Botelho. According to NBC's review of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, textbook prices have risen over three times the rate of inflation from January 1977 to June 2015, a 1,041 percent increase. More...
4 août 2015
The 8 Fiction Books That I’ve Read So Far This Summer
By Joshua Kim. I mostly read nonfiction. The 8 books that I’m recommending below are the fiction books that I’ve read so far this summer. Read more...
4 août 2015
I Read “Data and Goliath” Because of Barbara Fister
By Joshua Kim. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier.
For one of the recent books that I read I can definitely share my book selection process. I chose to buy and read (two very different actions) Data and Goliath because of Barbara Fister. Barbara reviewed the book - A Scare-Your-Socks-Off Thriller: Data and Goliath. I bought the book. Read more...
4 août 2015
“Misbehaving”
By Joshua Kim. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler.
There are at least two big reasons why those of us in the edtech profession may be interested in Thaler’s Misbehaving. (Whatever your reasons for reading this book you will be rewarded with an excellent tale well told). Read more...
4 août 2015
The Next Book I Will Read Comes Courtesy of MediaMixED
By Joshua Kim. The next book I will read is The Martian: A Novel.
The only reason that I purchased and will read The Martian is a review by Anthony Helm on MediaMixED. In Educational Technology and “The Martian”, Anthony connects his experience reading the novel to his work driving postsecondary learning innovation. Read more...
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