CONTINUING IN THE WORD
Perspectives on Homeschooling and Classical Christian Education from Scholars Online
Category: Technology
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“These students nowadays…”
The November 2024 issue of The Atlantic contains an article (“The Elite College Students who Can’t Read Books”) that has been raising eyebrows and ire since. In it, Rose Horowitch notes that academics at some prestigious universities have concluded that few incoming freshmen are ready for extended reading, many admitting that they have never been required to…
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November 17: August Ferdinand Möbius
On this day in 1558, Mary Tudor, Queen of England, consort of Philip II of Spain, died at St. James Palace, and was succeeded by her half-sister, Elizabeth. In 1869, the first ships officially passed through the Suez Canal in Egypt, creating a more efficient trade route for the countries along the Indian Ocean and…
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November 12: The World Wide Web
In 1984, Timothy Berners-Lee, who had worked at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) as an intern in 1980, returned as a Fellow. He worked to improved CERN’s connectivity to the Internet, and by 1989, it was the largest node in Europe, used by hundreds of scientists worldwide to exchange experimental data, theories, and…