#sundayread for April 8, 2018
By Wade KwonMy picks for #sundayread for April 8, 2018:
- Learned a lot from Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” (1985). I see the commodification of news, plus the drawbacks of the Information Age, in a whole new light.
[aff. link] https://amzn.to/2uTSa3T - The End of Typing: The Next Billion Mobile Users Will Rely on Video and Voice
By @EricBellmanWSJ
(RT @kikiochieng) - Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read
By @JulieEBeck - Flashback: One year ago, newspaper front pages on Alabama governor Robert Bentley’s ouster.
#alpolitics - How Productive Failure Leads to Better Learning
By @CourtneySeiter
(RT @Vanessa_Atim_) - Mr. Smith’s Funhouse: How Pittsburgh shaped one of skateboarding’s biggest stars
By Liz @BloomPG - Flashback: Spring cleaning for sites and blogs
- Across Canada, educators are changing the way they teach history to better include Indigenous perspectives
By @Wendy_Stueck and Caroline Alphonso @calphonso - 10 Great Books on Autism
By Med Kharbach @medkh9
(@via Butterflies_Hav) - Flashback: Y’all Connect: Spring cleaning for social media
- On female rage
By Leslie Jamison @lsjamison - Guantánamo, Forever
By @AmosBarshad
(via @reportermike) - Silicon Valley has been humbled. But its schemes are as dangerous as ever.
By @EvgenyMorozov
(via @OlafSteenfadt) - My Life in a 36DD Bra, or, the All-American Obsession
By @EveBabitz
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More #sundayread:
- All tweets for April 8 #sundayread
- The latest #sundayread tweets
- More #sundayread recommendations from me