Clay Shirky, a professor of media studies at New York University, has banned the use of technology in his classes. Shirky holds a joint appointment as arts professor at NYU’s graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts, and as a Distinguished Writer in Residence in the journalism institute. A leading voice on the effect technology, Shirky has been writing extensively about the Internet for nearly a decade, and admits that he is a “pretty unlikely candidate for Internet censor.” So why the ban now? Read more here .
Raising Successful Children
It’s what we all want to know, isn’t It? The secret to raising successful children. With so many “how to” books out there, where do we start? This NYT article is straightforward and brutally honest. Read it if you dare…
Why Tech Executives Limit Their Own Children’s Screen Time
Did you know Steve Jobs and Evan Williams (founder of Twitter, Blogger and Medium) are low tech parents? Find out why…
Patricia Kuhl: The Linguistic Genius of Babies
Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another — by listening to the humans around them and “taking statistics” on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world. (Filmed at TEDxRainier in 2010.)