Noisy colors
The Washington Post listens to different colors of noise.
“You must go offline to view this page”
You really do. Go to it and turn off your network connection.
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Sherry Turkle’s essay, out from behind the paywall.
Teaching and texting
How is it possible to teach a class of twenty students (a seminar, no less) and not realize that many of those students are texting?
Sherry Turkle on our phones and our selves
“In conversation, things go best if you pay close attention and learn how to put yourself in someone else’s shoes. This is easier to do without your phone in hand.”
Studying alone, really alone
“A phone is hardly the only obstacle to attention: the mind provides distractions enough of its own. There’s no need to supplement them.”
"Writing in the Age of Distraction"
Cory Doctorow: "When you come to a factual matter that you could google in a matter of seconds, don't."
Earphones and trolleys
Stop, look, listen
Free advice for Bill McKibben
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