This is about the invention of linotype, and its consequences.
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Are we in, or entering, a post-literate society?
A book I haven’t seen, merely heard about, is James Marriott’s The New Dark Ages: The End of Reading and the Dawn of a Post-Literate society. It sounds very interesting. I know that there are people who think that Tik-Tok videos and other (very) short-form content is a kind of literacy that’s on a par with reading, but I have my doubts. I think of reading as a slow activity, one that lends itself to stopping and thinking about what you’ve just read. I don’t think the pause button is quite the same. But as I say, I haven’t read the book so cannot really comment on it. It is published by Bodley Head.
Summer reading #1: OuLiPo and the Mathematics of Literature
I’ve started to compile a list of books you might wish to explore over the holidays. They’re not all to do with edtech — we all need a break!
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Books to be reviewed #3: Climate Change for Dummies
This is another book to be reviewed for Teach Secondary magazine.
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There are some interesting-looking books at the top of the to-be-reviewed pile. This is one of them.
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There are some interesting-looking books at the top of the to-be-reviewed pile. This is one of them.
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An interesting-looking book about AI
I haven’t read this book yet, but it looks like it might help teachers address some aspects of the Computing Programme of Study.
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books pile, by Terry Freedman
Online education: books just in
In the last two days I’ve received two books for review. One is almost hot off the press — Online Learning for Dummies was published in December 2020 — the other one is slightly warm — published in September 2020.
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How reliable is neuroscience?
If 10% of studies in neuroscience are flawed, how can you know which ones are OK?
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A world run by artificial intelligence: Zed
Technology has always provided a rich seam of possibilities to be mined by authors. In this book Joanna Kavenna imagines a dystopian future in which an AI company is running things.
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