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“Learning Is Static No Longer” – Why The Britannica Will No Longer Be Printed

News item:  Jorge Cauz
, President, Encyclopaedia Britannica:  we will no longer print the 32-volume encyclopedia… ————— And Farhad Manjoo leads the charge on why this is a good thing:  Expensive, Useless, Exploitative:  Why we should celebrate the end of the Encyclopedia Britannica’s print edition.  “Good riddance,” Mr. Manjoo says.  Here is part of what he wrote:… Read More “Learning Is Static No Longer” – Why The Britannica Will No Longer Be Printed

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The Never-Finished Book: Problems with Perpetual In-Progress Revising

  One of the most popular books for our CCN on-site presentations last year was The Shallows:  What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains” by Nicholas Carr (New York:  Norton, 2010).  In that book, he discusses how the Internet tinkers with the brain, reamps its neural circuitry, and reprograms the memory.  While the mind… Read More The Never-Finished Book: Problems with Perpetual In-Progress Revising

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Hold on Governor Perry – Let’s Get it Right, not Faster!

Earlier this month, the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, proposed that Texas abandon using traditional textbooks in public schools and replace them with computer technology.   In the story, published by the Associated Press in newspapers across the country, Perry asked participants at a computer gaming education conference in Austin, “I don’t see any reason in the… Read More Hold on Governor Perry – Let’s Get it Right, not Faster!

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