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jwoody2014

Main findings: Teens, technology, and human potential in 2020 | Pew Research Center's I... - 1 views

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  • Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones. Moreover, 96% of those ages 18-29 are internet users, 84% use social networking sites, and 97% have cell phones.
  • Nearly 20 million of the 225 million Twitter users follow 60 or more Twitter accounts and nearly 2 million follow more than 500 accounts.
  • YouTube users upload 60 hours of video per minute and they triggered more than 1 trillion playbacks in 2011 – roughly 140 video views per person on earth.
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  • There are more than 800 million people now signed up for the social network Facebook; they spend 700 billion minutes using Facebook each month, and they install more than 20 million apps every day. Facebook users had uploaded more than 100 billion photos by mid-2011.
  • People report having more difficulty with sustained attention (i.e., becoming immersed in a book). Today, we have very young, impressionable minds depending on technology for many things. It is hard to predict the ways in which this starves young brains of cognitive ability earned through early hands-on experiences.
  • expressed concerns about humans’ future ability to tackle complex challenges
  • The short attention spans resulting from the quick interactions will be detrimental to focusing on the harder problems, and we will probably see a stagnation in many areas: technology, even social venues such as literature,”
  • he impact of a future ‘re-wiring’ due to the multitasking and short-term mindset will be mostly negative not because it will reflect changes in the physical nature of thinking, but because the social incentives for deep engagement will erode,
  • Perhaps the issue is, how will deep thinking get done—including by whom—rather than will everyone be able to do deep thinking. In other words, division of labor may chang
  • Negative effects include a need for instant gratification, loss of patience
  • “The biggest consequence I foresee is an expectation of immediacy and decreased patience among people. Those who grow up with immediate access to media, quick response to email and rapid answers to all questions may be less likely to take longer routes to find information, seeking ‘quick fixes’ rather than taking the time to come to a conclusion or investigate an answer.”
  • he fears “where technology is taking our collective consciousness and ability to conduct critical analysis and thinking, and, in effect, individual determinism in modern society.”
  • A number of respondents to the survey expressed concerns over the health and well-being of young people by 2020
  • I wonder if we will even be able to sustain attention on one thing for a few hours—going to a classical concert or film, for instance. Will concerts be reduced to 30 minutes? Will feature-length films become anachronistic
  • Communication in all forms will be more direct; fewer of the niceties and supercilious greetings will exist. Idle conversation skills will be mostly lost.
  • Increasingly, teens and young adults rely on the first bit of information they find on a topic, assuming that they have found the ‘right’ answer, rather than using context and vetting/questioning the sources of information to gain a holistic view of a topic.
  • My friends are less interested in genuine human interaction than they are at looking at things on Facebook. People will always use a crutch when they can, and the distraction will only grow in the future
  • Fast-twitch’ wiring among today’s youth generally leads to more harm than good. Much of the communication and media consumed in an ‘always-on’ environment is mind-numbing chatter. While we may see increases in productivity, I question the value of what is produced
  • My sense is that society is becoming conditioned into dependence on technology in ways that, if that technology suddenly disappears or breaks down, will render people functionally useless
  • Technology is taking more and more of our children’s time, and not much of the internet time is spent learning. Time once spent outside (as a child) is now spent on computers.
  • The overall effect will be negative, based on my own experience with technology, attention, and deep thinking
  • I see the effect of television as a primary example, in which people voluntarily spend large amounts of time in mentally unhealthy activity
  • The ability to express opinion and emotion is replaced with flaming and emoticons, which are much less nuanced. The level of knowledge of the world around many young adults—cultural, political, historical, scientific—seems reduced in favor of greater knowledge of pop culture.
  • There is also a blurring in their minds between facts and opinions because both are presented in quantity with similar polish and forcefulness, and verification and reasoning have been replaced by search engine results.
  • jwoody2014 on 10 Sep 14
     
    This article was rather long, but really worth reading! It talks about positives and negatives about technology in the future (2020) and what people expect to see happening. The negatives are what I read about, but very interesting to think about. Here are a few quotes that really got me thinking... "Technology is taking more and more of our children's time, and not much of the internet time is spent learning. Time once spent outside (as a child) is now spent on computers." "My sense is that society is becoming conditioned into dependence on technology in ways that, if that technology suddenly disappears or breaks down, will render people functionally useless." "Today, we have very young, impressionable minds depending on technology for many things. It is hard to predict the ways in which this starves young brains of cognitive ability earned through early hands-on experiences."
etrick

N.D. woman surfing Facebook while driving crashes into SUV, killing great-gra... - 0 views

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    Abby Sletten, 20, was also texting while driving along Interstate 29 in May, police say, as she plowed into an SUV where Phyllis Gordon, 89, was a passenger. Gordon died and Sletten, who reportedly did not brake before the crash, has been charged with negligent homicide.
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jwoody2014

Texting, Twitter contributing to students' poor grammar skills, profs say - The Globe a... - 0 views

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Texting Literacy Decline

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  • Little or no grammar teaching, cell phone texting, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, are all being blamed for an increasingly unacceptable number of post-secondary students who can't write.
  • require the students they accept to pass an exam testing their English language skills. Almost a third of those students are failing.
  • Thirty per cent of students who are admitted are not able to pass at a minimum level,
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  • Barrett says the failure rate has jumped five percentage points in the past few years, up to 30 per cent from 25 per cent.
  • Punctuation errors are huge, and apostrophe errors. Students seem to have absolutely no idea what an apostrophe is for
  • Emoticons, truncated and butchered words such as 'cuz,' are just some of the writing horrors being handed in
  • Little happy faces ... or a sad face ... little abbreviations," show up even in letters of academic appeal,
  • I get their essays and I go 'You obviously don't know what a sentence fragment is. You think commas are sort of like parmesan cheese that you sprinkle on your words
  • Then he's reduced to teaching basic grammar to them himself.
  • Cellphone texting and social networking on Internet sites are degrading writing skill
  • The Internet norm of ignoring punctuation and capitalization as well as using emoticons may be acceptable in an e-mail to friends and family, but it can have a deadly effect on one's career if used at work.
gocloud

How social media and technology is making our society illiterate by sean clawson on Prezi - 1 views

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  • Using devices like spell check are hurting us because it teaches use how not to remember a word, just type in something that looks like it and the answer will pop up. There are tons and tons of words that I have forgotten how to write because of spell check. In the modern age of communicating, texting has become the new fashion.
  • Using phrases like omg, brb, u, r, lmao are making it faster to send a message, but it is slowly making use more illiterate.
  • Also, I feel like students are now negatively influenced by apps such as Twitter and Facebook. I constantly see the misuse of your, you’re, there, their, they’re and so on.
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  • The use of texting, spell check and the internet and slowly making us more illiterate and moving use in the opposite derection of what we should be going in.
  • Texting is teaching us how to spell words wrong, and sometimes we can’t spell them right anymore. Shorting words like U and R, are making us illiterate.
  • I (Dan) can say that I have been affected by this because sometimes, when typing, I will abbreviate things or knowingly spell things wrong hoping that spellcheck will fix it for me.
  • A study from CNW’s news team found in Canada in 2010 that 4 in 10 adults struggle with low literacy. Children are at an even larger risk for being illiterate in adulthood because of their access to technology. According to a 2007 survey carried out by the U.K. Government Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), more than 4 in 5 children ages 5–15 have access to a home computer, and levels of Internet use are at 46% for 5- to 7-year-olds and 75% for 12- to 15-year-olds. Furthermore, children in the12–15 age group reported that use of the Internet was “the most important technology in their lives—more important than television” (DCSF, 2007). Ofcom, 2008, also say that 84% of girls compated to 75% of boys use the internet at least once a week for instant messaging. According to a study, 20% of students never read fiction or nonfiction books, but about 67% surf websites weekly. The study found that 20% of older students attributed their poor writing skills to the fact that they do not write much.
  • jwoody2014 on 10 Sep 14
     
    I agree that technology is making society illiterate. Spell check can be helpful, but it doesn't teach people how to remember that spelling of the word. They quickly change it and move on to the next item that needs fixed without even thinking. I think we depend on technology too much and it is starting to take away from our critical thinking skills.
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