This is something I found very interesting in the reading:
In 1998, author John Brockman proposed an interesting question to an organization of more than 100
scholars. His question was simply, “What is the most important invention in the past two thousand years?” Responses to this question varied from the somewhat obscure public key inscription system (a security system for computers) to more expected candidates such as the steam engine or the computer. Eleven of the inventions nominated by the scholars are listed here.
1. The printing press
2. The scientific method
3. The computer
4. Numbers
5. Reading glasses
6. The atomic bomb
7. Democracy
8. The steam engine
9. Clocks
10. Plumbing
11. Hay
Lee, John (2011-12-01). Visualizing Elementary Social Studies Methods, 1st Edition (VISUALIZING SERIES) (Page 377). Wiley. Kindle Edition.
It made me think quite a bit, also made me give more thought to low vs. high tech. Numbers to me is the most important invention in the past two thousand years from this list as most of the other impressive inventions that came after the invention of numbers used numbers in some way.
I have seen voice thread before, but not glogster. I tried playing with it a bit, and was going to attempt a quick trial glog. My Internet stopped working and then glogster didn't want to cooperate so I'll try another day. Project Gutenberg was pretty neat. I knew that after copy rights run out you can get a lot of books for free in kindle format on amazon and assumed elsewhere, but I did not know about this site. I just discovered that when I copy from my kindle version of our text book, a citation is automatically generated and added to the contents when I paste as seen above. After having a class where we had to site everything, I find this to be a very cool feature of high-tech reading.
That is great news that our text is available through the Kindle! I am glad that you are citing the text as well. It is a habit we should get into to keep working at the high graduate level of work. Well done.
ReplyDeleteThe book is available in a Kindle version, sadly though it doesn't work on my regular kindle. I think it is because there are so many illustrations, they didn't make it work with the kindles that are meant mainly for reading text. Thankfully, there is a free app for my mac that I can use, but it isn't quite as travel size as my kindle. I think most people are unaware that they can by a kindle version to read as long as they have a Mac or PC (also some android and other devices) that they can run the kindle app on. I'm actually renting the book currently and can buy at anytime before the last day of my subscription and the amount I paid will be applied to that payment. It is worth checking into for anyone, they kindle edition is often much less than the print!
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