December FNO - "The Flickering Mind"

[Jamie McKenzie <fromnowon@EARTHLINK.NET>]

 From Now On
The Educational Technology Journal
Vol 13|No 4|December|2003

This month's free issue of FNO can be found online at
http://fno.org.

There are three articles and a cartoon:

1. One Flew Over the High School (Excerpt below)
A Review of Todd Oppenheimer's book
"The Flickering Mind"
by Jamie McKenzie
http://www.fno.org/dec03/flickering.html
McKenzie faults Oppenheimer for selective reporting, distortion and
bias. He visits Napa to check on the veracity of Oppenheimer's
reports.


2. What is Smart Tech?
by Jamie McKenzie
http://www.fno.org/dec03/smarttech.html
What are the traits of smart technology use?

3. Smart Tech in Napa
by Jamie McKenzie
http://www.fno.org/dec03/napa.html
Join Jamie McKenzie on a quick visit to Napa and read
about the smart use of technologies Oppenheimer
evidently overlooked and bypassed on his tour
of the valley.

4. The December Cartoon
http://www.fno.org/dec03/deccartoon.html
Reductio ad Absurdum
Sometimes less is less.
New technologies can compress and trivialize communication.
--
Jamie McKenzie
Editor, From Now On - The Educational Technology Journal
fromnowon@earthlink.net
http://fno.org

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