Sign up for an account on almost any website and you‘ll be asked to read and type out a string of distorted characters. This task, known in the business as a Captcha, is meant to be easy for a human but near impossible for a software “bot,” thus preventing spammers from automatically creating accounts in [...]
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Does the Digital Classroom Enfeeble the Mind?
Posted by steven on October 10th, 2010 610 views
How can you be ambidextrous in the matter of technology and education? Education – in the broadest sense – does what genes can not do. It forever filters and bequeaths memories, ideas, cultures and transfer nongenetic information between generations, creating a longitudinal intelligence that is unlike anything else on Earth. The data links that hold [...]
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