“A Norwegian art gallery lost a Rembrandt etching worth up to $8,600 (£5,400) in the mail after trying to save money on courier and insurance costs, the gallery’s chief said on Thursday.”
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Should “Digital Literacy” Supplant Print Literacy?
“Digital literacy’s advocates increasingly speak of replacing, rather than supplementing, print literacy. What is ‘reading’ anyway, they ask, in a multimedia world like ours? We are increasingly distractible, impatient, and convenience-obsessed–and the paper book just can’t keep up. Shouldn’t we simply acknowledge that we are becoming people of the screen, not people of the book?”
An Education For Dance
“Dismissive views of dance and few resources for developing and scientifically evaluating dance programs generally have kept dance education out of, or marginalized in, the K-12 curriculum.
Yet dance has long had a significant role in the education, religion, ethnic identity, gender marking, and social and political organization of many cultures.”