“Let’s allow teenagers to discover” that online freedom “is in many ways an illusion”
Annie Murphy Paul has a piece in Slate on counter-marketing campaigns that reduced teen smoking, and how they could serve as a model to help kids become more
“Students will tweet for help… and expect an immediate response”
When I was working on my dissertation I spent a week at Exeter University. It’s a lovely place, I think-- I really saw nothing other than the library,
How technologies are designed to commodify distraction
[This is the second of several posts drawing on my the talk I gave at the NAIS annual conference. The first is here.] How are technologies designed to distract
The need for a social approach to distraction
[This is a post drawing on my the talk I gave at the NAIS annual conference.] We use the term "distraction" in two broad ways. Both involve situations
NAIS
This week my wife and I were at the National Association of Independent Schools annual conference. I was giving a talk on contemplative computing and efforts by schools
And now, pretty much the opposite of contemplative computing: PreVue, “a solution to enhancing maternal-fetal bonding”
Via fellow futurist Scott Smith, this pretty amazing concept piece: the Wearable Pregnancy Ultrasound. The description: PreVue is a solution to enhancing maternal-fetal bonding as a reassurance window.
The “Misunderstood” Rorschach test
"In its latest ad, with an "if you can't beat em, join 'em" message, Apple isn’t carving aspirational ground, it’s caving to people's vices," Jennifer Rooney declares. She's
Selfies and selfishness, or, Google is not a vitamin
Sherry Turkle recently published an op ed in the New York Times about selfies and "The Documented Life." In it, she argues that the focus on taking selfies,
Smartphones behave like kids: A new video shows how
For a while now I've been talking about how smartphones behave like kids. Recently I got some actual kids together to illustrate the point. This video was a
High-tech toddlers “are apparently struggling to pick up basic fine-motor skills”
Granted, this is from the Daily Mail, which tends to the alarmist and anecdotal, so take it with a grain of salt: Toddlers these days are barely out