The cognitive blogroll
After setting up my Bloglines blogroll last week, I had this startling thought about RSS aggregators like Bloglines, niche (and partisan) media outlets like Fox News, and selective “hearing” that students occasionally engage in when reading: part of the freedom to pick and choose what is convincing—and select one’s sources for reading (or believing)—is the […]
Sheer pleasure in an archive
The last occasion I spent time in the Georgia State Archives was in 1991, when I was in the midst of dissertation research. I was there last week looking at a series of local school-district reports from the late 1930s through the 1960s that had detailed numbers on the age and grade of students, exactly […]