The Academic Commons Magazine

April 2011

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This collaborative issue with NITLE features two case studies exploring how digital technologies are reshaping humanities inquiry and pedagogical practice, through projects that expand and deepen classroom-based learning. 

From the Archives

Google is making us SMARTER!

Posted June 24th, 2008 by Peter D. Naegele, Oberlin College Department of Psychology
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While Nicholas Carr is decrying the supposed effect Google is having on our brains, he stumbles through a quote by Nietzsche to a friend on the effect a typewriter was having on his writing. The intriguing part of the quote is “our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.”