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Facebook Makes Us Sadder And Less Satisfied, Study Finds : All Tech Considered : NPR - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 21 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • social comparison.
  • "When you're on a site like Facebook, you get lots of posts about what people are doing. That sets up social comparison — you maybe feel your life is not as full and rich as those people you see on Facebook," he says.
  • "It suggests that when you are engaging in social interactions a lot, you're more aware of what others are doing and, consequently, you might be more sensitized about what's happening on Facebook and comparing that to your own life,"
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  • The prescription for Facebook despair is less Facebook. Researchers found that face-to-face or phone interaction — those outmoded, analog ways of communication — had the opposite effect. Direct interactions with other human beings led people to feel better.
  • Steve Ransom on 21 Aug 13
     
    Facebook Makes Us Sadder And Less Satisfied, Study Finds
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Study: Texting Erodes Writing Skills? RU Kidding Me? - Pacific Standard: The Science of... - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 28 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Regarding classwork, text-speak was considered moderately appropriate for use in lecture notes, but strictly off limits for assignments or exams.
  • Steve Ransom on 28 Jan 14
     
    "the current study provides real-world evidence to address past media concerns that textism use is somehow damaging English literacy." At least among university students, they found, it's just not happening. So NTW (not to worry).
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Sorting, Labeling & Matching iPad Games - Learning in Hand - 1 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 30 Apr 14
     
    Great app by Tony Vincent that allows you to create interactive, colorful, informative, visual puzzles and study guides. These can also be shared with others who have the app.
Steve Ransom

Social media major factor in teens' social & sex lives: Australia study - NetFamilyNews... - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 02 Jul 14
     
    Lagely good news, other than the worrisome sexting phenomenon.
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Noam Chomsky on Democracy and Education in the 21st Century and Beyond - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 04 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • The people who concentrate wealth don't do things just out of the goodness of their hearts for the most part, but in order to maintain their position of dominance and then extend their power.
  • One can at least be suspicious that skyrocketing student debt is a device of indoctrination. It's very hard to imagine that there's any economic reason for it. Other countries' education is free, like Mexico's, and that is a poor country.
  • There are a lot of factors. And one of them, probably, is just that students are trapped.
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  • Your future depends on it; my salary depends on it.
  • until I got to Central High, I literally didn't know I was a good student, because the question never came up.
  • There were tests, but they just gave information about what's going on. This is something we ought to be doing better.
  • "How can mosquitoes fly in the rain?" And then, but why is there a problem? Well, you study the force of the raindrop hitting a mosquito - it's like a person being hit by a locomotive.
  • It doesn't matter how much you learn in school; it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself.
  • Control from above, control by the administrators. No respect for the working person, whether it's a teacher or machinist.
  • Kids are naturally creative, and of course, you don't have to beat it out of them. That's why they're asking, "Why?" all the time.
  • You can't let teachers control the classroom. That's teaching to test; then the teachers are disciplined. They do what you tell them. Their salaries depend on it; their jobs depend on it. They become sociopaths like everyone else. And you have a society where it's only, "Look after me; I'll forget everyone else."
  • Steve Ransom on 04 Jun 13
     
    Best read of the day. "It doesn't matter how much you learn in school; it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself."
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as the school year begins: a better way to handle homework - 0 views

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  • “Spaced repetition” is one example of the kind of evidence-based techniques that researchers have found have a positive impact on learning.
  • Eighth-grade history students who relied on a spaced approach to learning had nearly double the retention rate
  • “retrieval practice,”
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  • Every time we pull up a memory, we make it stronger and more lasting, so that testing doesn’t just measure, it changes learning. Simply reading over material to be learned, or even taking notes and making outlines, as many homework assignments require, doesn’t have this effect.
  • When we work hard to understand information, we recall it better; the extra effort signals the brain that this knowledge is worth keeping. This phenomenon, known as cognitive disfluency
  • interleaving
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The Impact of Digital Tools on Student Writing and How Writing is Taught in Schools | P... - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 17 Jul 13
     
    Asked to assess their students' performance on nine specific writing skills, teachers tended to rate their students "good" or "fair" as opposed to "excellent" or "very good." Students received the best ratings on their ability to "effectively organize and structure writing assignments" and their ability to "understand and consider multiple viewpoints on a particular topic or issue." Teachers gave students the lowest ratings when it comes to "navigating issues of fair use and copyright in composition" and "reading and digesting long or complicated texts."
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  • Steve Ransom on 06 Nov 13
     
    "To better illustrate learner-centered instruction in action, the Maine Department of Education has produced a series of videos focusing on several Maine schools that are leading the way."
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Multitasking while studying: Divided attention and technological gadgets impair learnin... - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 22 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • It’s multitasking while learning that has the biggest potential downside
  • 80 percent of college students admit to texting during class; 15 percent say they send 11 or more texts in a single class period.
  • Texting, emailing, and posting on Facebook and other social media sites are by far the most common digital activities students undertake while learnin
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  • “Young people have a wildly inflated idea of how many things they can attend to at once
  • “Under most conditions, the brain simply cannot do two complex tasks at the same time. It can happen only when the two tasks are both very simple and when they don’t compete with each other for the same mental resources.
  • They may like to do it, they may even be addicted to it, but there’s no getting around the fact that it’s far better to focus on one task from start to finish.”
  • the assignment takes longer to complete
  • The moment of encoding is what matters most for retention
  • memory of what they’re working on will be impaired if their attention is divided
  • This ability to resist the lure of technology can be consciously cultivated,
  • “even if distraction does not decrease the overall level of learning, it can result in the acquisition of knowledge that can be applied less flexibly in new situations.”
  • leads to more mistakes
  • texting and using Facebook—in class and while doing homework—were negatively correlated with college students’ GPAs.
  • “There’s a definite possibility that we are raising a generation that is learning more shallowly than young people in the past,” he says. “The depth of their processing of information is considerably less, because of all the distractions available to them as they learn.”
  • academic and even professional achievement may depend on the ability to ignore digital temptations while learning
  • kids who were better able to delay gratification not only achieved higher grades and test scores but were also more likely to succeed in school and their careers.
  • hose who were interrupted more often scored worse on a test of the lecture’s content; more interestingly, those who responded to the experimenters’ texts right away scored significantly worse than those participants who waited to reply until the lecture was over.
  • students who used Facebook during the 15-minute observation period had lower grade-point averages than those who didn’t go on the site
  • “Young people’s technology use is really about quelling anxiety,” he contends. “They don’t want to miss out.
  • Device-checking is a compulsive behavior that must be managed, he says, if young people are to learn and perform at their best.
  • ‘This is a time when you will concentrate on just one thing.’ ”
  • Just make sure when they’re doing schoolwork, the cellphones are silent, the video screens are dark, and that every last window is closed but one.
  • Steve Ransom on 22 Aug 14
     
    Great piece on the deleterious effects of multitasking on learning and the importance of teaching mindfulness and attention literacy in a highly digital and connected landscape.
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