The Inexperienced Teaching Wisdom to the Naive

Posted on February 17th, 2007 by bookwyrmish

It’s a quandary. It’s a conundrum.
Perhaps every generation that experiences a major, powerful change faces this same dilemma. Powerful tools can be dangerous, even when they are extremely useful. Gunpowder. Lasers. Cell phones with cameras.
Cell phones, being fraught with danger? I’m not talking about brain tumors from overuse, either. The [...]

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Can I have a simulated virtual reality, to go?

Posted on February 1st, 2007 by bookwyrmish

I’d like to give it to the girls in the third grade, and to a couple of Middle School students.
I have been experimenting with my new avatars at Club Penguin and on Second Life, learning how to navigate in these virtual worlds. (I’ll have more to blog about them, soon.) I have [...]

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