“I could never get people to speak up,” Professor Chakravarty said. “Everybody’s intimidated.” “It’s clear to me,” he added, “that absent this kind of social media interaction, there are things students think about that normally they’d never say.” Twitter and other backchannel technologies have begun to take foot in the nation’s classrooms. One of the [...]



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It’s the modern truism: technology changes quickly. Web self-publishing service Geocities – and its amazing variety of garish color schemes with HTML enhancements – doesn’t even exist as a service any more. The internet and seemingly omnipotent smartphones have fundamentally changed our way of life. We’ve become used to getting everything we want, when we [...]