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

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literacy decline Technology effects

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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."
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Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis? -- ScienceDaily - 0 views

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  • As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined, while our visual skills have improved,
  • 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,
  • "If we want to develop a variety of skills, we need a balanced media diet
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  • By using more visual media, students will process information better," she said. "However, most visual media are real-time media that do not allow time for reflection, analysis or imagination
  • Technology is not a panacea in education, because of the skills that are being lost.
  • Students today have more visual literacy and less print literacy. Many students do not read for pleasure and have not for decades.
  • Studies show that reading develops imagination, induction, reflection and critical thinking, as well as vocabulary,
  • a classroom study showing that students who were given access to the Internet during class and were encouraged to use it during lectures did not process what the speaker said as well as students who did not have Internet access. When students were tested after class lectures, those who did not have Internet access performed better than those who did.
  • "Wiring classrooms for Internet access does not enhance learning
  • college students who watched "CNN Headline News" with just the news anchor on screen and without the "news crawl" across the bottom of the screen remembered significantly more facts from the televised broadcast than those who watched it with the distraction of the crawling text and with additional stock market and weather information on the screen.
  • More than 85 percent of video games contain violence, one study found, and multiple studies of violent media games have shown that they can produce many negative effects, including aggressive behavior and desensitization to real-life violence
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Does texting hurt writing skills? - TimesDaily: Archives - 0 views

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  • Out of 700 youth aged 12-17 who participated in the phone survey, 60 percent say they don't consider electronic communications - e-mail, instant messaging, mobile text - to be writing in the formal sense; 63 percent say it has no impact on the writing they do for school and 64 percent report inadvertently using some form of shorthand common to electronic text, including emotions, incorrect grammar or punctuation
  • to excuse bad writing by saying it's just how their world is now "is ignoring the fact that formal communication is still important and necessary."
  • Many struggle with the formal writing process
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  • I've realized they very often write the way they speak and they speak the way they text. And yes, I've had a few students turn in papers with numbers instead of words and letters used inappropriately. It's definitely the texting influence.
  • Among the 64 percent of students who say they incorporated text language in their writing, 25 percent said they did so to convey emotion and 38 percent said they have used text shortcut
  • Billy Ray Warren, secondary curriculum director for Florence schools, said texting has definitely contributed to the decline in writing skills. And there's another issue that concerns him as well: a lack of cursive writing ability.
  • Keyboarding, in general, whether at the computer or on a cell phone, is a definite culprit in the lack of cursive writing skills among high school students
  • She admits she gets lazy from time to time and allows text talk to enter her school writing.
  • "I might use the number 2 instead of spelling out "to", or for the word "into" I might write n2
  • jwoody2014 on 10 Sep 14
     
    I think texting can make some people lazy. I couldn't imagine writing a paper and putting abbreviations of words in instead of spelling out what I meant or even putting emoticons in. I had never even thought of the decline in cursive handwriting because of technology and the use of a keyboard!
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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.
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The Decreasing Literacy Skills of the Workforce - Changing Responsibilities of Business... - 0 views

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  • Employers are finding that the ability to write clearly, concisely and correctly among their workforce is becoming a rarer and rarer skill. And nearly everyone in the workplace is frustrated at how slowly they read and how little they remember.
  • In 2001, the American Management Association found that one-third of job applicants flunked basic literacy and math tests.
  • Employers view reading and writing as critical basic skills, yet they are often at a loss about how to improve those skills among their workforce without incurring huge costs and loss of on-the-job time
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  • few programs exist to teach basic skills and employers find it difficult to justify such expenditures. 
  • more and more job applicants have serious literacy and communication deficiencies
  • most excellent students and even experienced VPs or CEOs have inferior reading skills that are not adequate to support the increased literacy demands of the modern workplace.
  • even qualified applicants and highly sought-after executives are feeling information overload and experiencing at least a 30 percent drop in productivity since the Internet dominated the workplace. They are reading with outdated, inefficient techniques that are unchanged since the first grade.
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