Building Your Digital Identity, Literacy, and Network
Hi friends, The selection we read from Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Future by Clive Thompson is essentially our #howthewebworks class’ syllabus in a nutshell. Every single chapter focused on a either a…
For our last assignment we were told to read chapters 5-10 from the book “Smarter Than You Think”. I enjoyed reading the book and came to understand the effect technology has on our everyday lives. It is normally harder to see this effect since most of us have grown up with all of this technology […]
Thompson’s example of how a human/machine team would consistently beat a team of only computers or a team of only humans really exemplified how the world is today with technology. The symbiotic relationship between man and machine is what drives humanity forward to it’s next evolutionary stage. Symbiosis has been the driving force for evolution […]
In his book, Smarter than you Think, Clive Thompson discusses memory, and how much we value it although it is oftentimes incomplete. He observes how our memories are selective, and when recalling we tend to fill in the details that have long since gone with our short term memory. It’s pretty interesting. I’ve thought a … Continue reading A Bit on Memory
“The history of factual memory has been fairly predictable up until now. With each innovation, we’ve outsourced more information, then worked to make searching more efficient. Yet somehow, the Internet age feels different. Quickly pulling up “Tori Amos” on Google seems different from looking up a bit of trivia in an encyclopedia. It’s less like […]
Right after reading only a few chapter from this book change the whole perspective that I had. It helped me to understand better and improve my knowledge of understanding the relationship between technology and human brain. In this generation, technology is floating across the palms of humanity. As human brain become sharper and smarter, technology […]
After reading chapters 5-10 of Clive Thompson’s “Smarter Than You Think” I learned a lot about peoples memory and how some people think it has changed over time with the internet. When Thompson was talking about memory and how we don’t remember things as much as we used too. he said this because we can […]
My second DS106 Assignment is about making a pinterest board of what my dream vacation would be like. I’ve always been fond of animals and so I would go to an african safari as my dream vacation. While going to the zoo is similar, I’d really like to see animals in their natural habitat. I […]
The DS106 Assignment I chose to do was to make a pinterest board for a character. I chose Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter series. I’ve been a big fan of the Harry Potter series and I thought it would be really fun to make a board for one my personal favorite characters. When I […]
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These three blogs interested me the most because they include discussions about different types of art, photography, and issues that typical students face. I really enj…
