Luke Fernandez reports out from Apple's AcademiX 2009. In current economic climes, it's an inexpensive conference option--thanks to Apple--and as Fernandez discovers, it offers an engaging exploration of digitial technologies and their impact on teaching and learning. For upcoming AcademiX 2009 conferences, see http://www.apple.com/education/academix/  . Normal 0

Evan Ratliff at Salon's Machinist blog asks if the Internet is making us lose our memory. Building off of Nicholas Carr's provocative Atlantic article entitled Is Google Making us Stupid and the discussions that have resulted therein...here and here, Ratliff wonders what happens to our brains when we never develop the need to remember certain items, like remembering phone numbers, an task that online personal databases has rendered obsolete.