The Past that Lights the Present’s Path
Anthony Grafton uses his reconstruction of the past in order to better understand the current contexts of reading and technology.Anthony Grafton Authors@Google
Archive for March, 2010
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New Media and Learning Initiative
Two weeks ago I went to a meeting with campus leaders of the New Media Consortium. It was a delightful meeting, two words that seldom come together. I was interesting to see how they processed in information from the discussion. As Larry Johnson moderated Rachel Smith chronicled the discussion visually. It was a model of [...]
Reading in the Cloud
Last month I attended a workshop taught by Gardner Campbell director of the Academy for Teaching and Learning at Baylor University on Wikipedia and Teaching. The big topic in the workshop turned out not to be Wikipedia but the idea of social reading. Now social reading need not be high tech. Malcolm Gladwell in his [...]
