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The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s - NYTimes.com
Posted by HeyWayne on January 19th, 2010
My 2-year-old daughter surprised me recently with two words: “Daddy’s book.” She was holding my Kindle electronic reader. Here is a child only beginning to talk, revealing that the seeds of the next generation gap have already been planted. She has...
BBC NEWS | Education | Danish pupils use web in exams
Posted by HeyWayne on November 9th, 2009
In Denmark, the government has taken the bold step of allowing pupils full access to the internet during their final school year exams. A total of 14 colleges in Denmark are piloting the new system of exams and all schools in the country have been invited to join...
BBC NEWS | Technology | Early origins for uncanny valley
Posted by HeyWayne on November 9th, 2009
Human suspicion of realistic robots and avatars may have earlier origins than previously thought. The phenomenon, called the uncanny valley, describes the disquiet caused by synthetic people which almost, but not quite, match human expressiveness. Experiments...
YouTube - Delete
Posted by HeyWayne on November 3rd, 2009
Trailer for "Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age" by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, published by Princeton University Press 2009.Tags: memory digital memory technology delete forget Posted by:...
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Is computer use changing children?
Posted by waynebarry on August 18th, 2008
"As the age at which children start to get familiar with computers and the net gets ever lower, questions are starting to be asked about what that exposure is doing to our children's brains and their ability to concentrate. These questions are ones which...
Bees join hunt for serial killers
Posted by waynebarry on July 30th, 2008
"The way bumblebees search for food could help detectives hunt down serial killers, scientists believe. Just as bees forage some distance away from their hives, so murderers avoid killing near their homes, says the University of London team. This...
Doing internet research: critical issues and methods for examining the net - Critical Studies in Media Communication
Posted by waynebarry on July 15th, 2008
Posted by waynebarry to internet "world wide web" research on Tue Jul 15...
How the Google generation thinks differently
Posted by waynebarry on July 9th, 2008
"My elder son Oli is almost 15 and way beyond the stage where I might usefully help with his homework. But in the run-up to his recent end-of-year exams, I felt compelled to take a hovering interest in his revision. This chiefly involved loitering on the...
