The Kindle Chronicles TKC 522 Jim Jones on Technology in the Classroom
Jim Jones, right, Associate Professor of Management at University of Nebraska at Omaha
Interview starts at 9:03 and ends at 40:50
“In the classroom, I really do strongly feel that attention is so critical to actual understanding that the more that you can remove the electronic connection and the focus on inputting electronically or--even worse sometimes I think, is passively taking pictures of the screen--the better.”
News
Is Amazon working on another phone? https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/7/29/17627314/amazon-phone-studios-jen-salke-rumor
How wealthy are Jeff Bezos’s parents? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-31/a-hidden-amazon-fortune-bezos-parents-could-be-worth-billions
How Amazon dominates online retail: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-01/amazon-s-the-biggest-in-online-shopping-but-not-always-the-best
Demise of the Kindle Voyage:
https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/the-kindle-voyage-is-now-discontinued
Tech Tip
Update for Kindle app for iPhone and iPad:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-kindle/id302584613?mt=8
Interview with Jim Jones
Gallup and its StrengthsFinder assessment tool
Bloom’s Taxonomy of educational goals
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Clifton Strengths assessment
Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.
Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!
Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.