The Myth of Interactivity on the Internet
Of course not everybody would agree with the author's one-sentence assessment of online learning ("If learning is learning with people, then elearning is learning with content.") and when he says "the internet" he mostly means the web. Still. More...
Welcome to Your Future Internet
This article is a little pie-in-the-sky but as the opening paragraph says, somewhere in the world some people are doing these things right now. What things. More...
A Proposal for New Schools in the Age of the Internet
OK, this article doesn't go into a lot of depth, but it shows that some teachers are yearning for the sort of learning the internet can provide. What sort of learning? "Here comes the radical idea: We completely change schools into 'activity centers' where students gather for active learning and socializing. More...
La théorie du genre a probablement largement puisé aux travaux de la philosophe Judith Butler. Elle est riche de concepts d'idées de perspectives permettant d'explorer les relations entre les hommes et les femmes. Plus...
“Just an Ass-Backward Tech Company”: How Twitter Lost the Internet War
Maya Kosoff, Vanity Fair, 2018/02/23
This article has one of the best tech put-downs I've ever read: "Twitter’s backend was initially built on Ruby on Rails, a rudimentary web-application framework that made it nearly impossible to find a technical solution to the harassment problem. If Twitter’s co-founders had known what it would become, a third former executive told me, 'you never would have built it on a Fisher-Price infrastructure.'" Oh, ouch. More...
The Best Internet Filter: It's In Students' Minds, Not Their Computers
I agree with the author's take in this editorial: "the strongest and most enduring standards are ones that people uphold for themselves. Computer users should have the skills and judgment to avoid filth after they leave school or the library. More...
At the Internet of Things Village of the DEF CON security conference in 2016, hacking contests revealed nearly 50 vulnerabilities in 23 devices from 21 manufacturers. More...
John Perry Barlow, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018
Cindy Cohn, Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2018/02/08
I met John Perry Barlow at Idea City in 2003; I said nice things to him about his work and he urged me to support the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which he co-founded. More...
Very Big Pipes
Even after the demise of Napster, file sgaring continues to be a major activity among college and university students. Fle sharing and the many other activities that make up educational internet traffic are clogging university internet connections. More...
Education on the Internet
This useful email newsletter was launched in the U.K. in October. Currently on issue 11 (with more than 11,000 subscribers) the newsletter provides weekly links of interest in a range of topic areas including history, English, politics, sociology, music and more. More...
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