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Erik Jacobi

Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis? / UCLA N... - 2 views

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  • By Stuart Wolpert January 26, 2009
  • Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis?
  • Reading for pleasure, which has declined among young people in recent decades, enhances thinking and engages the imagination in a way that visual media such as video games and television do not, Greenfield said.
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  • Schools should make more effort to test students using visual media, she said, by asking them to prepare PowerPoint presentations, for example.
  • "Studies show that reading develops imagination, induction, reflection and critical thinking, as well as vocabulary," 
  • "However, most visual media are real-time media that do not allow time for reflection, analysis or imagination — those do not get developed by real-time media such as television or video games. Technology is not a panacea in education, because of the skills that are being lost.
  • "prevents people from getting a deeper understanding of information," Greenfield said.
  • Thomas Chapman on 11 Mar 14
     
    Television, video games are producing a definite decline in literacy among children, and adults.
Brooke Smith

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  • If you are on team A or team B, you will evaluate the following statement:  "Technology (through television, texting, Facebook posting, and the Internet), has contributed to a increase in literacy skills." Team A will create an argument in support of the statement above. Team B will create an argument to refute (or disagree) with the statement above. In other words, Team A finds research in support of the statement, while Team B finds research to ref
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