How to Annoy Your Parents (Smurfs, Tweety, Jar-Jar and Ewoks)

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Some things to think about before you exhort everyone to code | Miriam Posner’s Blog

In an exploratory, ungraded in-class activity yesterday, I introduced students in my upper-level English seminar to code. Yes, there was some coercion, given the realities of the education system, and some students may have preferred a lecture or more structured format, but I tried to invoke community and play. How successful was I? Too early…

Developing digital literacy in higher education: live chat | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional

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The Death of Hypertext?

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Shepard Fairey Pleads Guilty Over Obama ‘Hope’ Image

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The myth of the eight-hour sleep

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A longer-than-usual introduction to a reading assignment in my “Media and Culture” class turned into a useful opportunity to reflect. We are all busy people; yet somehow, many people who say they are too busy to take on another task spend hours reading, interpreting, and debating Harry Potter; some post stop-motion Lego spoofs; some do…