Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
Academia: What Was "Digital Literacy"?
Short Shelf Lives Make For Bad Curricular Planning
What we think is a decline in literacy is a design problem | Aeon Essays
Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time
Use of technology in classrooms has been a disaster for students [column]
Schools and other educational facilities should reduce their use of technology in the classroom. According to a 2021 paper published by Northwestern College, tech in schools has led to increased
Opinion | My Students Can’t Read
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
The Right Words in the Right Order
The crisis of literacy and the humanities predates smartphones and AI, argues Davies, who traces its origins to a transformation in how society understands language and learning. From the 1980s…
Changing Minds: Computers, Learning, and Literacy
An impassioned guide to how computers can fundamentally change how we learn and think.Andrea diSessa's career as a scholar, technologist, and teacher has b
The End of Software
To understand how software will change, we can benefit from studying how technology has changed other industries. History tends to rhyme, if you listen. Before the internet, media behaved very differently—it was expensive to create. You had to pay people to make content, edit it, and distribute ...
On Reading Issues of Wired from 1993 to 1995
There’s a lot of chatter in Silicon Valley about changing the world, but our own world hasn’t changed that much.
The 'Future Book' Is Here, but It's Not What We Expected
Visionaries thought technology would change books. Instead, it's changed everything about publishing a book.
The End of Reading Never Began
What “The End of Reading Is Here” gets wrong about literacy, intellectual authority, and American “decline”
Norway Abandons Ed-Tech, Embraces Books
A massive revolt against educational technology in the classroom is under way, especially in certain European nations. Education leaders in some countries have concluded that Ed-tech is the primary…
Literacy lag: We start reading too late
Teaching (Very) Early Reading: Part 5
