Category: Research

  • The Revolution is in Your Pocket

    EduCause has a really interesting piece in their latest quarterly about the mobile revolution that has been flooding across campuses without a proverbial sound. It explores ways to take advantage of the massively powerful and connected devices through SMS, the most basic data service available on all phones. It would be cool if North American…

  • Teens and Cell Phones over the last 5 years.

    I missed this back in August as I was away for part of the month, but PEW has gone back over their data from the past five years to take a look at how the use of mobile technologies by teens has changed. The first, and most important finding is that teens have almost caught…

  • More info on Generation txt – It doesn’t hurt

    While I was away in Jasper, one of the profs had some of her recent work picked up by seemingly everyone and as it fits well with what I’ve posted before I couldn’t wait to get home and add it to my collection of research on sms speak, neologisms and the like. Connie Varnhagen has…

  • Philosophical Babies

    From CBC’s The Current: The Philosophical Baby Two hundred years ago, William Wordsworth wrote, The child is the father of the Man. The great romantic poet had a deep-seated belief that children were gifted with more innate, earthborn wisdom than adults. And ask any parent today … when you stare into the wide, unblinking eyes…

  • Cellscope

    I saw this a few days ago, then I heard an interview on CBC about it and then it showed up again this morning in my inbox, I was awed when I heard it the first time and the more I see it and think about it the more amazing it seems. The idea that…