Threshold concepts
“Threshold concepts” is a term from higher education theory, meaning an idea or a piece of knowledge which, once understood, is transformative – it changes …
digital literacy
Critical sharing
Sharing without pausing for thought risks making fools of us – as individuals and as communities. Critical consumption in internet use (crap detection as Howard …
Outliner thinking
In this MIT Technology Review article about different writing and blog authoring tools – As We May Type – Paul Ford describes a tribe I wasn’t aware …
Turning down the distraction on our devices
Apps. When did they get so needy? Like newly hatched chicks they chirrup and gawp, those little red dots having a similar cognitive effect on …
How Howard does it: attention master at work
This is a great video in which Howard Rheingold (using Screenr, an interesting Twitter screencasting tool) explains his process, his workflow, for gathering information and …