Monthly Archives: January 2011

MacWorld offers this list of practical suggestions for keeping kids safe online. The suggestions are quite concrete, but as you might expect suggestions are explained assuming the student is working on a Macintosh.

p>There seems to be a move toward “brain based” everything. Somehow knowing which area of the brain “fires up” when an activity is on-going appears to explain something. My background is in cognitive psychology and this background offers a way … Continue reading →

Paper Rater offers writing tools to assist students in evaluating their writing projects. The online service proofreads and identifies plagiarized material (“Find out if your paper contains plagiarized text before your professor does.”). I copied an pasted some content from … Continue reading →

The March/April issue of Educause Review contains an article by Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger offering comment on several claims regarding the Internet and education. No, you still need to know things. No, learning is still ultimately the accomplishment of an … Continue reading →

Engadget provides this description of the Kno. It looks too big to me, but I am paying attention because Cengage is evidently interested in the project.

ATT announced today that it is changing the pricing structure for 3G access. Instead of the original $19.95 fee for unlimited information downloads, it now appears that a new price structure related to the amount of content downloaded will be … Continue reading →