Online Professors for Free
adminNew York Times has an article about the best of online professors. Now that many universities are making their lectures available online for free, sometimes directly and sometimes through services…
Cognizing and offloading Cognitive Load
In linguistincs and psychology we talk about the cognitive load of any task. A task that requires calculation or analysis has a larger cognitive load. A task in a foreign…
NY Times: Ambient Awareness, Digital Intimacy
Xeni Jardin at Boing Boing pointed me to this NY Times article Ambient Awareness, the effects of the Facebook and Twitter on culture and psychology. A great read. Combined with…
cck08 about to start
One of the blogs I read (I think it was Robin Good's) sent me to cck08, an open online class in Connectivism. I've been curious about this concept of distributed…