Archive for LVL 3: NEW TECH INNOVATIONS
Laptops disrupt lectures. So let’s ban lectures!
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The iPad paradox: Less is the new more!
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I've noticed a trend online recently of new services whose main feature is that they hardly do anything. Twitter was the first major site in this new trend, which boldly asserted its limitations as features. "You can't send more than 140 characters!" "No pictures!" "No formatting!" "It does hardly anything!" Welcome to the future. The less-is-more world is here. Get used to it. And if you're going to argue with an iPad fan about why netbooks are better, don't bother with listing what the iPad cannot do. Limitations are what people want now. (Read)
What sort of man reads ‘Playboy’? A criminal.
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Playboy Enterprises has inked a deal with 2K Games for the product-placement of Playboy magazines all over scenes in the game Mafia II.
Laptops and lectures are incompatible. So ban lectures!
Posted by: | CommentsLecturing professors nowadays face a room full of students paying full attention — to their laptops.
A lecture, by definition, is a method of teaching whereby a person talks and an audience pays attention. But a laptop is an interruption machine that fragments attention. Lectures and laptops are incompatible activities.
Some professors have addressed the fundamental incompatibility of lectures and laptops by banning the laptops. But maybe it would be better to keep the laptops and ban the lectures. Here’s why.
Mystery Pic 113: What is it?
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The Pentagon: "We’re looking for a few good iPhone apps."
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Microsoft wants to use your flesh as an input device.
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Mystery Pic 112: What is it?
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