John Dyer at Don’t Eat The Fruit frequently has thought provoking meditations on the values implied by or developed by technology. His latest is a non-review of a project to offer “a social-media application built for church“. It’s a non-review because John has not seen the project, but it’s more than a review because it [...]
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In this post I want to move beyond the earlier one “How’s my presence?” where I argued that presence is not a binary state, but a graduated one. We can be more or less present. Here I will summarise briefly some fascinating research by Steve Wheeler at the University of Plymouth, make some suggestions arising [...]
[Repost from old blog, to allow reference here in a later post.] Good students avoid reading books. To explain this I need to start by describing how average students read, so you will understand what I mean. The average student faced with a book reads it. They begin at the beginning (or more likely at [...]
