{Comic} Bonus Points

Now here’s the puzzle: We can’t actually teach it. ‘Teaching’ imagination is like giving away the answers. It’s like spoon feeding. Students have to use and trust their own imagination in order to exercise it. It’s a path they have to take on their own. Sure, we can guide them through the process, but it’s their…
I’ve used Polleverywhere a couple of times for presentations, and sli.do looks a little like Polleverywhere, but with a couple of nice additions. Sli.do bases the presentations on events, and each event under the free plan can have 3 polls, and up to 1,000 participants. But, moving past the polls, participants can ask questions and…
Amazon released a new Kindle this week, the Oasis. At 3.4MM thick and 4.6 ounces in weight, it is over half the weight of an iPad mini and almost 50% thinner (44.3% if you want to be pendantic). The downside is that it is $290. But, who buys a black and white Kindle? Readers I…
I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people’s minds from getting hijacked. When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does…