By Joshua Kim. Recently, I ran across an article on Hacker News (do you read Hacker News?) from a Japanese news site: A New Digital Divide: Young People Who Can’t Use Keyboards. Apparently, a growing number of Japanese students never learned to type of a physical keyboard, having only been exposed to small virtual keyboards on their smartphones. More...

By Joshua Kim. Higher ed seems to be a hotbed of worry about a robot-driven jobless future. This is at least true of the edtech people with which I hang around. More...

By Joshua Kim. My new favorite website is https://electrek.co/.  The site’s about page reads: "Electrek is a news site tracking the transition from fossil fuel transportation to electric and the surrounding clean ecosystems." More...

By Joshua Kim. Some of us are having a conversation about learning innovation as an emergent academic discipline. See:

• Learning Innovation Is Evolving Into an Academic Discipline
• 8 Questions and Answers on a New Academic Discipline to Study Learning Innovation

There are some things about the scholarship of learning innovation that may relate to the discipline of library and information science (LIS). More...

By Joshua Kim. Why reading about paleontology will make you want to go to grad school. More...

By Joshua Kim. I read lots of nonfiction. Unless these books are about higher education, higher education is unlikely to be mentioned. The Efficiency Paradox is different. Higher education plays a starring role. More...

By Joshua Kim. In 1983 Harvard, in collaboration with Digital Equipment Corporation, installed 36 DECmate 1 word processing units across campus. Each unit came with a terminal screen and printer. More...

By Joshua Kim. If you didn’t become an academic, then you might have ended up as a journalist. Rather than working at a college, you might have found yourself employed by a newspaper. More...

By Joshua Kim. There is actually so much great stuff on By Any Other Nerd, written so openly and beautifully, that it is easy to get sucked into Lance’s world. You should check it out. More...