Kids are very impressed when they observe me typing — or is it called keyboarding now? I will call it typing, since I am an old dog and I don’t feel like learning yet one more new trick. I learned touch-typing in HS on one typewriter in a room full of other students and typewriters, […]
A New Year’s Resolution: To Help Your Child Succeed in School
The first documented New Year’s Resolutions are attributed to the Babylonians, whose culture dates back thousands of years. It was an idea that has withstood the test of time, but — as Hamlet observed — it’s a custom more often honored in the breach than in the observance. Here’s one to consider, nevertheless, courtesy of […]
Will the Internet Make You Stupid?
It’s been said that the Internet does not make you stupid, it merely broadcasts your stupidity to the world. But the pundits may be wrong. Recent thought-provoking studies, which beg to differ, argue that the Internet may indeed make you stupid! And they have evidence to support them. Writer Nicholas Carr earned a Pulitzer Prize […]
