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Reading in a Participatory Culture by Henry Jenkins and Wyn Kelley
Jenkins and Kelley offer an optimistic alternative to Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our Brains which is filled, as Jenkins claims, with “contemporary anxieties” (p. 10). The book offers instead this explanation: “As a society, we are still sorting through the long-term implications of these [media] changes. But one thing is…
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Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal
I don’t think of myself as a gamer. I have been known to play lots of those Flash-based Facebook games with my Candy Crush Saga friends, and occasionally a great puzzle-based novella will come along like Gabriel Knight 2, Syberia or Ripper that I devour, but generally I didn’t think they were a big part…
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Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden My rating: 5 of 5 stars Boyden allowed me to feel that I had been to Moose Factory and felt the complicated nuances of self-government and survival that happen there. And yet it’s a wonderful modern mystery as we try to understand what has happened to Suzanne and we…
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The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
When Nicholas Carr wrote the infamous article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” (2008), he made waves in the education community who had bought into the Marc Prensky vision of today’s students as “digital natives” (2005). While making impetuous decisions about technology integration in schools, Carr halted everyone into thinking maybe we should be a bit…
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Storify: Treasure Mountain Canada 2014
What a fabulous day! Even though I grumbled yesterday about our early 8 a.m. start, my jet lag had me up at 5 a.m. I found a great coffee shop with an early start and energized. There were so many new faces, familiar faces and people from my online PLN, that very soon we felt…
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