I.T. in the University

A few months ago I drew some storyboards of a digital app that would help develop mindfulness about digital etiquette and how best to coord...

Our article titled  Before MOOCs, "Colleges of the Air"  has just been published in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Here's ...

Susan after her presentation at TEDx Waterloo.  (TED is fun!)

My spouse and I are doing research on emotional responses to a variety of 19th and 20th century communication technologies.  While doing th...

As a way of following up on my Walden-Zone app storyboards I've been looking at other apps that do similar things.  One that came to my...

Last year we developed a Concentration Browser which was intended to help students develop greater mindfulness about their digital connectio...

For a while now people have been arguing about the virtues and demerits of unplugging from the internet. Following William Powers and other...

Scott Rogers, Susan Matt and I recently had an Educause article published on our class titled Concentrating Class: Learning in the Age of Di...

In Judd Apatow's new movie This Is 40 there is a funny scene where the parents decide to turn off their wifi and then try to convince t...

Historians often lament the fact that we don’t really know enough about our past to make sense of who we are today.  That historian’s critiq...