KerryJ’s Neotenous Tech

This You Tube video produced by an American high school girl has a great twist on information literacy. It’s not just about an important skill to help in education — it’s a skill for life!
And by the way — the first quote she uses is from her science teacher - who did not back [...]

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As I was trawling through my RSS feeds via my iGoogle interface, I saw that ads have infiltrated RSS — although I had to scroll to see the branding.
I suppose it was going to happen - maybe it did and I’ve just noticed.  For some reason, it makes me sad.
I wonder if it’s something that [...]

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Y’know - perhaps the Harry Potter series is one of the most profitable entertainment media franchises to come along in a while — but when I’d heard there were spoilers due to an online book store screwing up and delivering the book a few days in advance — I was picturing mean-spirited nobodies trying to [...]

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In communication and education, we are bombarded with an ever-increasing barrage of you-beaut tools, tricks, tips and sites designed to make our communications and teaching more effective.
To illustrate the point for a presentation I was planning for earlier this week, I was going to print out a blog post publishing links to web 2.0 sites [...]

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In an attempt to design products, services and marketing messages tailor-made to entice particular age brackets of people, it would seem that the “generations” are getting re-segmented.
Being born in 1965, I’ve found myself over the years being lumped in with Baby Boomers (people born 1944 to 1965) and Generation X (people born from 1965 to [...]

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