Across the Page The world is made up of stories, not atoms.

Time 2020-11-16 21:05:51

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Do digital tools make us smarter? It s a question raised by some who study technology and its effects on cognition. In my freshman writing classes, we usually explore this topic through essays like Nicholas Carr s Is Google Making Us Stupid? and Clive Thompson s Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the + Read More Most of my reading this summer has consisted of rereading the lion s share of it on my Kindle. I may have forgotten something, but here s what I remember of what I ve read since my last post: I revisited Gary Schmidt s Wednesday Wars and Okay for Now and still like the latter book best of + Read More Like most churches, mine has adopted a strategy to preserve business as usual through a season of state-enforced shutdowns of venues where people gather to minimize spread of coronavirus. First, they tried to broadcast services via Facebook. Due to technical glitches week after week, they moved to a different platform (I don t remember the name) + Read More Looking around at the irrationality and destruction and rage tempts me to despair. But I drew some encouragement from C.S. Lewis this morning. It wasn t current events that prompted me to pick up Miracles, but when I reread this passage I took heart: Now there is no doubt that a great deal of the modern + Read More A friend asked me recently about homeschooling in those areas in which I don t have noteworthy expertise like chemistry, which my younger daughter has been taking this year, or pre-calculus, which she will start next year. It s a good question. The answer is that in the homeschooling model, the teacher is not the primary + Read More The doctrine that war is always a greater evil seems to imply a materialist ethic, a belief that death and pain are the greatest evils. But I do not think they are. I think the suppression of a higher religion by a lower, or even a higher secular culture by a lower, a much greater + Read More I ve polished off several novels lately. Our library s digital download page which of course I ve visited in lieu of going to the (closed) physical library has been really promoting Harry Potter. At the same time, my daughter s children s lit class in college covered the book as well, which piqued my curiosity. So I + Read More So Jonas s father says to him when he asks whether his parents love him in Lois Lowry s The Giver. They come to mind as a good title for this post because I m thinking about another article that has appeared exploring our culture s ambivalence about science. This one, entitled, Coronavirus Puts Science at the Center in + Read More This article in Inside HigherEd makes the point that even in the midst of a crisis, the humanities fields of study that explore human history, society, art and language and literature, spiritual and moral knowledge nourish us. In fact, if the current trend in voluntary education is accurate, the humanities may be even + Read More When should we trust the experts? For that matter, who counts as an expert, and on what is this based? Expertise is by nature narrow and specialized; at what point does someone s expertise fail to apply to the area about which they are being asked to speak? These are basic questions that underlie many of + Read More

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