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#BIT15Reads: The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr
The Glass Cage: Automation and Us by Nicholas Carr My rating: 3 of 5 stars Like most people with an urban mindset, Nicholas Carr’s point of view focuses on being able to purchase goods and services at his fingertips. This is why, once again, his writing alienates people like me…people who live in a rural…
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#BIT15Reads: your Top 12 books and conference update
Tonight we announce: your Top 12 books our event at BIT15 and what it will look like I’m joined by Jim Pedrech and Tim King as we discuss these things and more. Watch us here:
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#BIT15Reads: Passionate disagreement
“….ideas that inspire passionate disagreement can lead to success” (Clive Veroni, Spin, p. 27) At last I’ve found a common thread between three #BIT15Reads books (two books is easy). Veroni says that modern marketing has finally understood that being really disagreeable, can also make you memorable and he goes on to say that politicians have…
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Rethinking Learning Spaces
Source: Rethinking Learning Spaces A trait that I admire above all things is someone who is a creative risk-taker. When Mark Carbone reached out and asked me to talk live about my experience with redesigning learning spaces, my introvert hesitated for about 15 nanoseconds, before I responded “yes!”! Mark and Jamie and I come from…
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The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins My rating: 5 of 5 stars An instant classic, The Girl on the Train is delicious from start to finish. With multiple narrators involved in the same crime, readers are sure to enjoy the twists and turns of reliability and complete dysfuntion that each voice brings to…
threadbare beauty 