… about technotrash in the classroom, UD stumbles upon this.
“The result of this ‘social media revolution,’ is a mass movement of people who stare at their screens engaging in mindless chatter and mesmerized window-shopping,” said [Timothy] Dansdill. “Their outlandish, subversive claim that ‘sharing information’ and sending and receiving ‘messages’ is essential for creating and sustaining social and emotional intelligence … is deeply damaging to the simple, but powerful human acts of face to face conversation, solitary reading, writing, and reflection, and the shared making of actual knowledge.”
Sometimes you have to hold your nose and keep reading. Sometimes, as Martha’s George says, “you gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are.”