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No technology is a great way to teach. Also, PowerPoint is more than two decades old. It doesn’t count as technology anymore.

By Matthew Dicks | November 7, 2014 | Comments Off on No technology is a great way to teach. Also, PowerPoint is more than two decades old. It doesn’t count as technology anymore.

Rebecca Shuman of Slate writes about the benefits of a low technology classroom, despite complaints by some students that they are not being prepared for a world in which technology is a dominant an essential force. “While exceptions exist, research shows again and again that when people are staring at a screen, or skip-jumping through a…

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PowerPoint presentations, game shows, skinny dipping, and now The Oscars: Quirks of the many book clubs I have attended

By Matthew Dicks | September 10, 2014 | Comments Off on PowerPoint presentations, game shows, skinny dipping, and now The Oscars: Quirks of the many book clubs I have attended

Last week I attended the meeting of Sheltering Trees, a book club in Wallingford, Connecticut. The members of the group (more than a dozen ladies ranging in ages from their twenties to their seventies) were kind enough to read Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, so I joined them for their discussion. As expected, it was…

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