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Tag: Books

  • The coolest tools are invisible – are IDers pushing the wrong edge?

    One of the things that I had a chance to do while I was recovering over the first couple weeks after surgery was to hunt down books on Amazon. One of them was Clay Shirky’s book “Here Comes Everybody“. I don’t remember how I came across this, but I remembered that it hit me as…

  • Ideas of surveillance

    +++This post started out on my phone and has been trapped in the back end of my database for the weekend – I’ll come back to it when I have time+++ Friday, I took in this really interesting lecture by Meyrowitz, as well as a small panel afterward, who talked about how reality and it’s…

  • Storytelling and technology

    This isn’t digital storytelling from the traditional (it’s more than a month old online so it’s ancient) definition, but it’s more aligned with interactive storytelling. Warren Spector, a great game designer has written an article in Escape about the new storytelling and how the new hardware might actually be a barrier and that to do…

  • How Computer Games Help Children Learn

    David Shaffer has a new book coming out that looks to be good. With a forward from James Paul Gee, it looks at how we need to change our thinking about games and (I would think all of education as well – there was a blog post that I commented on yesterday that said the…

  • Freakonomics

    I just finished up Freakonomics, an interesting read to be sure. I enjoyed it a bit more than Gladwell’s work, as they are both great ways to look at the “other side” of an argument. I didn’t find much that was directly applicable to EDIT, but there is an interesting chapter as to why teachers…