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Updated version of Did you Know 3.0 (How Technology is changing our lives)

A Vision of Students Today

Our hyper-connected lives have been rewired for the digital age. These 10 talks explore how the Internet and social media are shaping our relationships, personal lives and sense of self.

What the Internet is doing to our brains a charming animation based on Nicholas Carrs rather reductionist, techno-dystopian book The Shallows. For a more dimensional look at how digital culture is...

This project is devoted to the memory of my grandmother, Olive. It is at once her life story and not a story at all. In a sense it represents the product of an intimate family collaboration and of the close journey we shared in collecting and preserving her oral history. But this project is not a product, nor is it entirely about my grandma, about me, or about the sentiment out of which it emerged. The Olive Project is about process, and at its core it is also about you, about your encounter with it, and about your participation in the ongoing process of composing memory. To navigate, hover over the image links to see what is behind them.

Kairos

Globalization & The Information Age. In other words, how technology is changing our lives.

Five ways of mapping the world. One story about people who make maps the traditional way — by drawing things we can see. And other stories about people who map the world using smell, sound, touch, and taste. The world redrawn by the five senses.

Most 12-year-olds love playing videogames -- Thomas Suarez taught himself how to create them. After developing iPhone apps like "Bustin Jeiber," a whack-a-mole game, he is now using his skills to help other kids become developers