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Multitasking while studying: Divided attention and technological gadgets impair learnin... - 0 views

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multitasking attention distraction mindfulness research highered

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  • 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.
Steve Ransom

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mla apa citation tool paper

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  • Steve Ransom on 15 Aug 14
     
    Nice free MLA paper & citation formatting tool. Looks like APA not ready yet.
Steve Ransom

The State of Educational Blogging 2013 - The Edublogger - 0 views

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blogging rationale data statistics support

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  • Steve Ransom on 14 Aug 14
     
    Great pulling together of data by Sue Waters. If you need information to support a blogging initiative with your students, this is a great post to draw upon.
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8 Ways to Show Your iPad on a Projector Screen - Learning in Hand - 0 views

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ipad project projector display screen

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  • Steve Ransom on 28 Jul 14
     
    Nice resource by Tony Vincent
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N.J. schools go BYOD: Students get green light to use cellphones in class | NJ.com - 0 views

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byod

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  • Steve Ransom on 25 Jul 14
     
    Lots to consider when making a significant cultural/learning shift to BYOD.
Steve Ransom

The Ultimate Directory Of Free Image Sources - The Edublogger - 0 views

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directory free images creativecommons publicdomain

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  • Steve Ransom on 24 Jul 14
     
    "So, you need an image for your blog? We've spent some time categorizing our favorite sources for free images and organizing them in such a way as to help you find what you're looking for."
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  • Steve Ransom on 18 Jul 14
     
    Mute annoying YouTube ads with this free Chrome plugin.
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  • Steve Ransom on 09 Jul 14
     
    A nice magazine publishing service. Free tier is limited, but still useful.
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What's the Impact of Overzealous Internet Filtering in Schools? | MindShift - 0 views

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cipa filtering

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  • “The over-filtering that occurs today affects not only what teachers can teach but also how they teach,”
  • “creates barriers to learning and acquiring digital literacy skills that are vital for college and career readiness, as well as for full participation in 21st-century society.”
  • “It’s not a magazine, we’re not just consumers, we’re creators, we’re users.”
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  • most students have unfettered access to these forbidden sites through the phones in their pockets and backpacks, on their home computers and in many public libraries – often with no adult guidance
  • it has to be learned in context in a supportive environment,”
  • (a) obscene; (b) child pornography; or (c) harmful to minors.”
  • defining the three measures is up to each community, creating widely varied implementation from district to district
  • and their answer to any requests was usually no.
  • Their view was that if the filter is blocking it, there’s no reason for you to see it,”
  • Krull implemented a teacher login system that lets staff override some blocked sites. He’s working on a similar system for students that would grant varying degrees of access depending on grade level.
  • nearly three times as many teachers of low-income students than those with middle- and high-income students said this lack of access was a “major challenge” in their ability “to incorporate more digital tools into their teaching.”
  • eliminating filters isn’t the answer to debugging the problems with CIPA.
  • There’s not a right or wrong; it’s a lot about community values
  • “It’s not if you have a filter or not, it’s really about to what degree do you filter, how do you filter?”
  • Steve Ransom on 03 Jul 14
     
    Teachers should have the professional courtesy of managing blocked/filtered sites
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