You see, lovers of real, hold-in-the-hand books, digitisation of text isn’t all evil. It saves lives. I recommend you read the entire post by Maria Popova and browse the books. Yes, they’re Spanish but the experience is self explanatory. Amplify’d from www.brainpickings.org PICKED: Interactive Quixote By Maria Popova The digitization of text has been [...]
Archive for October, 2010
Digitisation of text saves dying books
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged don quixote, interactive, interactive quixote, maria popova, picked on October 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What is the future of reading?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged book, coupland, Design, global, meet nelson on October 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The connections to networks of people makes reading an enriching experience. This video has made me think about how we can make learning at school more engaging and meaningful through technologies which connect students to each other and popular interests and debate. Amplify’d from vimeo.com The Future of the Book. Read more at vimeo.com [...]
Technology brings back the village doctor
Posted in technology, Web 2.0, tagged Arna Ionescu, Education, health care, learning, people, technology on October 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Change +: Arna Ionescu, “Technology Isn’t the S…, posted with vodpod Thanks for Gabriela Grosseck for the link to the video. This little talk grabbed my attention. Arna Ionescu talks about change in the delivery of health care, but she may as well be talking about change in education. Yes, Google has an immense store of information, [...]
Sir Ken Robinson animated
Posted in animation, Education, tagged animation, boredom, change, disengagement, divergent thinking, Education, industrialisation, RSA Animate, schools, Sir Ken Robinson, system, visualisation on October 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Here’s a great example of how visualisation enhances a very good talk by Sir Ken Robinson; Some of the most disturbing parts: Schools are trying to educate children like they did in the past, and consequently alienating millions of kids who don’t see any purpose in what they do in school. Ritalin is overprescribed (in [...]
Copyright isn’t right
Posted in Uncategorized on October 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Image: ‘meteora monastery, greece‘ Here’s another example of how copyright law just isn’t logical. In the article, US Library of Congress: copyright is destroying historic audio, the author refers to a 181-page in-depth study, which concludes that apart from technical difficulties, US copyright law makes it virtually impossible for anyone to perform any form of audio [...]
Picture books no longer a staple for children – NYTimes
Posted in Uncategorized on October 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Picture by Anthony Browne The New York Times article Picture books no longer a staple for children (7 Oct 2010) claims that Picture books are so unpopular these days at the Children’s Book Shop in Brookline, Mass., that employees there are used to placing new copies on the shelves, watching them languish and then returning them [...]
David Astle is puzzled
Posted in Events, tagged David Astle, meaning, play, puzzles, talk, The Wheeler Centre, words on October 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I travelled to another planet. Sitting in a long, narrow room bursting at the seams with puzzle and palindrome addicts, I wondered where these people had been hiding? Out of body experience? No, just another Wheeler Centre offering. I had come to the session David Astle: Confessions of a Wordaholic. Father holds six [...]





