I just think the act of writing one's thoughts down, or even sharing
photographs for that matter (except on Instagram) has even less space than
ever before. Not necessarily because younger generations than mine (I'm 40)
don't want to think critically. It's because they're blasted with all kinds
of
On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 7:15 AM Heather Madrone wrote:
> I asked my daughter to send me a recipe out of a cookbook I'd
> passed on to her. She texted a photo of the recipe to me instead of
> typing it into an email.
>
This resonated with me as an illustration of the up and coming generations
Deepa Agashe wrote on 1/4/19 2:01 AM January 4, 2019:
So I too am converging on the idea that the current crop of kids just
don’t write long-form. Perhaps I am paranoid, but I worry that a lot of
interesting views will be lost over time because nobody is bothering to
expound on them. A century
I think the observation that people have stopped writing longform might
have a little bit of observation bias (basing this on my observations :p)
Back when I was in engineering college, 1982-86, the only means of
communication, at least in Manipal, which was the boondocks back then, was
letter
I wrote a small piece yesterday on a similar problem.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/conundrum-professional-learning-nandkumar-saravade
We have to deal with shorter attention spans.
Regards,
Nandkumar
> On 04-Jan-2019, at 3:31 PM, Deepa Agashe wrote:
>
> Interesting to hear all your
On Fri, Jan 4, 2019, 3:31 PM Deepa Agashe
Perhaps I am paranoid, but I worry that a lot of interesting views will be
> lost over time because nobody is bothering to expound on them.
>
Societal progress optimises for quantity, not quality.
Though we can travel half way around the world in 20
Interesting to hear all your perspectives on this.
I’ve now had multiple debates with my PhD students, who keep trying to convince
me to set up a twitter account for our lab. And I continue to resist because I
find it very distracting, and counter to the idea of developing scholarship
(which
Because a lot of my work is with young kids, it is actually surprising to
see how much email is actually used, but not for conversations. For a lot
of the 16-22 year olds that we we work with, email is home base. it serves
different purposes of notification, sign-ups, verifications, cloud storage,
