Reading List on the Net {02.21.15}

Post-digital revisited. Eh, what? Oh... Interesting. I won't lie and say that I understand all that he is saying in this post but I do think that the normalization of digital has removed the desire to peel back the layers of the new techs to see what it is really about. What will this do, not just how can it be used.

"Nearly 5 years on the term Post-digital is becoming accepted in Higher Education circles as describing the normalisation of the digital in almost all aspects of activity...
The new normalcy of being connected has created a Post-digital environment in which ideology can be embodied in code- a form that most believe to be free of bias."

Liberty University opens nation's first Center for Digital Wellness. I'm rather surprised there aren't more of these already around the nation. Perhaps there are and they are just not publicized well?

10 Steps to Digital Wellness1. It's not "I tweet, therefore I am." Think twice before you post, tweet, text, or upload it.
2. Watch your digital footprints, because they are permanent.
3. Unplug. Take a digital "fast" once a week or once a month.
4. Invest in relationships. Real people trump virtual ones.
5. Establish digital boundaries. Limit when you use digital devices and how much time you spend on them.
6. Find things you enjoy in real life and do them.
7. Get outside. Take walks, feel the sun, and breathe fresh air.
8. Power down and get some sleep. Your brain can't thrive without it.
9. Cultivate your "Godspace" daily. Take time to be still and know that He is God.
10. Be a good steward. Use technology for God's glory.

The Church of the Right Answer. A friend (thanks, Tracy!) posted this to my FB wall after I was complaining (too much) about the research paper I am writing about online K-12 learning. Smiled while I read it but also thought of how much truth it contains.
"Wherever my students go- business, academia, government, Mars- they'll reckon with problems. They'll create things. Their hands will get good and dirty. And if they topple the challenges, fix what's broken, and imagine wonderful new things that everybody needed an that nobody ever realized, the the world will get better...When my students leave, it won't particularly matter what grades I bestowed, or what tests they aced, or what shortcuts to the right answers they could and couldn't find. What will matter are their abilities." I want to quote more but just go read it. *smile*

The title alone caught me. Silvia Cachia is a wonderful lady, and blogger, that someday I will hopefully be blessed to meet. How do I know she's wonderful? Because others have met her and say she is. Besides her writing shows it, too. So when Heather at Bent Leather titled her post "Since Silvia Stole My Post Title..." I had to go read. "I have now lived in the same house for longer than I have ever lived in any one house. I'm restless. I want to move. So thump, thump, thump, I move things around, beg for just one teeny new bookshelf, and spend the rest of the day rearranging. Dusting, Displaying odd bits." Wow- I could have written that. And she has the same Girl Reading painting as I do! Sigh...her home is just beautiful. That's it; I'm going to be working on my home tomorrow! (And a little update on this: I read/wrote it on Thursday. Friday had me working long on a research paper. And I discovered that I cannot rearrange furniture. Sigh. Everything is where it is because that's where it fits. I'll just continue daydreaming.)

Living book authors. It's longer than I expected but only two names do I know (R. C. Sproul and Paul Johnson). Of course the list for past living book authors, I only know five of the names. Yes, I need to read more.