Tag: Memory

In Memory of Bert Witvoet

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Bert Witvoet edited the Christian Educators Journal for about ten years, starting in the fall of 1999 and continuing through 2009. That means he oversaw almost forty issues, covering virtually every aspect of teaching in Christian schools. He chose the themes, requested articles and columns, edited those articles (which often meant multiple drafts and phone […]

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

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The Shallows

    “The effects of technology do not occur at the level of opinions or concepts,” wrote McLuhan. Rather, they alter “patterns of perception steadily and without any resistance” (Carr 3). When Nicholas Carr quotes Marshall McLuhan in the prologue of his book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, he introduces […]