Or is Twitter the beast?
For those unfamiliar with Twitter, the number sign is a hash tag used to label “tweets” (mini-posts) similar to Technorati or WordPress tags in blogs. As you can see from this chart from Twist, the topic du jour for Sunday was motrinmoms.
In fact, at 8:50 Saturday evening, there wasn’t a single [...]
We went to the bookmobile today and I picked up a rather odd book with a rather bold thesis. After all, how could you not pick up a book entitled, “I Watched A Wild Hog Eat My Baby!” A Colorful History of Tabloids and Their Cultural Impact, by none other than Bill Sloan, former writer [...]
I am really not sure what to think about this story other than “What is this world coming to?” And is there anyway to slow it down?
Russh Australia, a lifestyle and fashion magazine, hired Zippora Seven for a provocative 18-page editorial fashion spread alongside 16-year-old male model Levi Clarke. news.com.au
Seven also is but [...]
Christine, aka The Thinking Mother made a good point on my post looking at how our virtual lives affect our personal lives.
Discussing the affect on children and teens doing role playing games or regular video games is very different than discussing adults who were socialized before the big video game craze and before the Internet [...]
On the discussion regarding Victoria Lindsay, the Florida teen whose classmates beat her up and videotaped it to share on Youtube, Crimson Wife of Bending the Twigs shared a video game.
In my local paper last week, there was this glowing review of a new video game called “Bully: Scholarship Edition” that I found absolutely appalling. [...]
Tammy over at Just Enough, and Nothing More is discussing the real world and how homeschooling relates. I have spent some time pondering what the real world is, how public school prepares and/or creates that world and what it all has to do with homeschooling for some time now.
I have not come to any [...]
English literary tradition has produces a number of great works with which we should all be familiar. Schools are doing a good thing when their required reading list includes such works as Of Mice and Men, Moby Dick, Lord of the Flies, and, as much as I despised reading it, maybe even Jane Eyre.
But [...]
Happy National Video Game Day! Thankfully, this appears to be more of a cultural phenomenon with unknown origins and no apparent official status, but it is a good reason to take a look at video games:
According to the study Zero to Six: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers conducted [...]
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