Valibrarian

Have you walked into a Starbucks, picked up your coffee, then turned around to see a room full of people who are totally silent and plugged into their digital devices? All of them in a virtual world? Turkle describes, “… new intimacies in solitude and new solitude in intimacies.” We are poised at “the robotic [...]

Etiquette, some say, has become less of a priority in our fast-paced society. Table manners are rarely taught, since most families eat on the run. We have microwaves, instant downloads of movies (no more driving to Blockbuster to pick one out), instant music choices (itunes and Pandora), and even instant ebook downloads. Educators are struggling [...]

Today I am reading an article in the New Yorker, where Adam Gopnik says, “As a technology, a book focuses our attention, isolates us from the myriad distractions that fill our everyday lives. A networked computer does precisely the opposite. It is designed to scatter our attention. . . . Knowing that the depth of [...]

Augmenty Reality and Virtual Reality are two hot topics which are featured in a video from the Virtual Worlds- Best Practices in Education website. Predicted trends for the next 2-5 years can be found in the Horizon Report 2011 which was recently released.

I used to wander through the library as a child and I remember the  feeling of awe and wonder.  “What is inside those big thick books?”  ”What is in this section called Philosophy?” Of course, I had my favorites- the 800′s literature and poetry and the YA fiction section. I stumbled onto Edgar Allen Poe [...]