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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 June 10, 2014 

TRUER WORDS: “Endangered Minds”

Today’s Truer Words come from the 1991 book by education researcher Jane Healy entitled Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About It. Healy writes: While the adult community sanctimoniously bewails erosion of academic rigor and achievement … it perpetuates the practices that are shortening children’s attention spans and rendering their brains unfit […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 October 18, 2012 

Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 1)

At the end of my October 9th, 2012, post on the growing trend of “going it alone,” I mentioned William Powers’ 2010 book Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age, and suggested that Powers’ book contained good information on how to appropriately approach the growing analog–digital divide. Simply, face-to-face relationships would be on […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 December 21, 2011 

Nicholas Carr to Speak at RYOL Lecture Series

Author Nicholas Carr will be speaking as a part of the Foundation’s Roll Your Own Lecture (RYOL) Series. Mr. Carr is coming to Albuquerque on Friday, February 17th, 2012, to talk about his book The Shallows—What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. Book Description—The Shallows Here’s a description of The Shallows from the book’s […]

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