ain’t really your life,
ain’t really ain’t nothing but a movie.
Repeat.
Ad infinitum.
Was reminded today, after reading a superb review of Thomas de Zengotita’s book Mediated, of how much my life resembles a B movie. A really, really unoriginal B movie. Thoroughly mediated. Thoroughly cliche.
Can you think of any moment in your life where you didn’t [...]
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great friends that I don’t deserve. I say this because despite how aggressively I might want to seek and create authentic connections in my life, I’m terrible at actually doing it. That ultimately means I’m terrible at cultivating friendships and giving them the attention they need to survive. It’s most likely a [...]
Categories: my life
Henry Jenkins of MIT’s Comparative Media Lab discusses how many of our students today are being de-skilled as they enter schools where the digital tools they are using outside of the school environment are invalidated. Not only are many critical online resources blocked by crude filters but “[teachers] tell kids again and again that what [...]
Categories: education, technology
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