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Wondering what to do with all those cell phone photos and digital videos? A new e-book has the answer.

Dan Eldridge — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:56:29 +0000

Mike McEnaney spent nearly 10 years working as both an editor and a publisher of B2B photography and digital photography magazines for North American Publishing Company (NAPCO), the same organization that owns and operates both TeleRead and the Technology Tell network of websites. Very recently, though, McEnaney struck out on his own. And somehow, along [...]

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Spring Cleaning: A digital junkie declutters, thanks to technology

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:56:16 +0000

I wrote last year about a theory I had, namely that digitization was enabling a more minimalist lifestyle for people who wouldn’t otherwise be minimalist. I could still have my books, music and movies, but they wouldn’t take up space anymore. Well, I’m doing my annual March break spring cleaning this week, and I’ve found [...]

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Exploring Technology Overload with Students, Part 2

Joanna Cabot — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:10:46 +0000

I wrote a few weeks ago about the health unit I’m doing with my Grade 2 class, exploring technology and how we can use it safely in our lives. Well, our second lesson was delayed by a snow day, so I’ve only now gotten around to lesson two, and it was a doozy! In our [...]

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Exploring Technology Overload with Students

Joanna Cabot — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:28:14 +0000

As my school’s technology coordinator, part of my job is to explore the different ways our students use technology, and how that’s working for us. Are there tools we are under-utilizing? Tools we are over-utilizing? Are there concerns parents have over how their kids are interacting with technology on a daily basis? I learned recently, [...]

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Technology Overload In Education: Stop the Madness!

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:00:53 +0000

Fresh off the heels of CES and the Polaroid Kids Tablet and the iThis and the iThat, I have a confession to make about technology in education. And here it is: We actually don’t need any more technology. We don’t, really! That might be a strange thing to say in this age of tech abundance, [...]

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Is Digitization Enabling Minimalism for a New Generation?

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:23:06 +0000

An interesting article in The Toronto Star looks at young urbans who are embracing more minimalist lifestyles by cutting clutter and consumption in favor of more experience-based lives. The article points to several factors underlying this trend including health, economic factors and ‘the disposal nature of fast fashion and cheap electronics.’ But it fails to fully [...]

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AVG study shows 11-year-olds have adult technology skills

Chris Meadows — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:53:41 +0000

One of the funniest jokes in the “Internet Helpdesk” sketch by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie comes when the frustrated tech support staffer asks to speak to his client’s 9-year-old daughter, and proceeds to deliver in-depth instructions loaded with IT terminology—which the kid apparently completely understands. It’s a well-known cliché that kids are always [...]

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Print is dead for our kids, argues Telegraph’s tech editor

Chris Walters — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:54:50 +0000

Is the youngest generation going to grow up thinking of books as digital objects first, and print relics a distant second? That’s what Shane Richmond, the Head of Technology (Editorial) at the Telegraph, thinks. In an editorial published today he argues that print can’t compete with digital when it comes to search, annotation and portability: [...]

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How reading has changed over the centuries

Chris Walters — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:07:26 +0000

Here’s the first in a three part series from The Boston Globe about the evolution of text, from illuminated manuscripts to the latest thriller on a Nook Color. Part one imagines what the reading experience was like in previous eras, to set the stage for a forthcoming discussion of digital publishing and the modern reading [...]

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Fifteen inventions that were decades ahead of their time

Chris Meadows — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 06:04:21 +0000

I know this is about a month old, but I only found it just now and the subject matter is really rather timeless. In January, the Technologizer had a great article looking at 15 inventions or ideas, mostly media-related, that were decades ahead of their time. The title of the piece, “Mr. Edison’s Kindle,” refers [...]

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Another e-paper technology looks promising

Chris Meadows — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:15:00 +0000

Ars Technica has a report on a new form of e-paper that could offer the same low power consumption rate as the e-ink used in current e-readers, but at a much higher refresh rate and better screen reflectiveness. Gamma Dynamics’s e-paper screen uses layers of oil and pigment that can be induced to change places [...]

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Business cards continue to thrive in the information age

Chris Meadows — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:15:00 +0000

Back in January, I blogged on my personal journal about how “even in the information age, nothing beats getting carded.” I observed at the time that even in this age of digital bits freely flowing back and forth, when so many other paper forms of communication are beginning to be endangered by e-quivalents, and ten [...]

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iPad has fastest adoption rate ever

Chris Meadows — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:15:00 +0000

CNBC’s Fast Money has more good iPad news: Bernstein Research reports that the iPad is becoming the fastest-adopted non-phone consumer technology ever, selling three million units in the first 80 days and now about 4.5 million units per quarter. For comparison, the DVD—previously cited as one of the fastest-adopted consumer tech items—sold 350,000 units in [...]

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New book by Nick Bilton on technological disruption and apocalypses that never arrived

Chris Meadows — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:15:00 +0000

Mike Masnick on TechDirt links to a Slate review by Jack Shafer of an interesting-looking book: I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain are Being Creatively Disrupted, by Nick Bilton. (We’ve mentioned Bilton a few times in the past, such as when he was told he [...]

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Is this the time to take the plunge? New reading devices appear

Rich Adin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:08:59 +0000

Within the last 60 days there has been a bevy of announcements of new ereading devices. Amazon announced what is popularly called the Kindle 3 and Sony has announced 3 new models — the 350, 650, and 950. How far behind other makers will be is hard to tell, but the upcoming holiday season should [...]

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