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

An interesting thing to read when I find myself awake in the middle of the night. In 2001, historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech published a seminal paper, drawn from 16 years of research, revealing a wealth of historical evidence that humans used to sleep in two distinct chunks. His book At Day’s Close: Night…

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Hackers and Makers

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