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cydney johnson

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LITERACY AND MULTI MEDIA In the paper "LEARNING WITH TECHNOLOGY" Evidence that technology can and will support learning. The author supports the argument that students learn at a greater rate w...

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ryano5643

Teaching with the Internet - 0 views

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  • we have moved from a time when land, labor, or capital defined power and influence, to one where power and influence accrue to those most effective at using information for solving important problems.
  • As individuals or organizations identify problems, gather information, and seek solutions, digital bits become faster and cheaper than atoms (Negroponte, 1995) and in a highly competitive context speed, information, and cost become paramount.  Most of the technologies of literacy are driven by these three considerations.  Successful information and communication technologies allow faster access to more information at a cheaper cost than alternatives. Moreover, the globally competitive context in which we find ourselves ensures that new technologies for information and communication will continually be developed, resulting in continuously changing literacies and envisionments for literacy.
  • Policy decisions and discussions in many countries seek to ensure students leaving school are able to use new electronic literacies in order to identify central problems, find appropriate information quickly, and then use this information to solve problems and effectively communicate the solutions to others.
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  • You may envision the use of current e-mail technologies to help students share literary responses with friends and colleagues. To what extent does research from my envisionment for using e-mail generalize to your envisionment when the pragmatic aspects of these communication tasks differ so substantially? Clearly the challenges are enormous as we consider the utility of literacy research from one technology to another, from one iteration of a technology to another, and from one envisionment of literacy to another. Issues of ecological validity caused by rapidly changing technologies for information and communication and the increasingly deictic nature of literacy are critically important as we explore the literacy potentials of digital environments.
  • One area drawing recent attention has been the use of talking books among younger readers.  Talking books are hypermedia texts with digitized pronunciations of words and larger textual units.  Sometimes they also include animated illustrations and other features. While talking storybooks are designed to improve comprehension and reduce the decoding difficulties experienced by beginning readers, most of this work has taken place among students eight years of age or older, often with students experiencing difficulties learning to read (e.g., Farmer, Klein, & Bryson, 1992; Greenlee-Moore & Smith, 1996; Lundberg & Olofsson, 1993; Miller, Blackstock, & Miller, 1994; Olofsson, 1992; Olson, Foltz, & Wise, 1986; Scoresby, 1996; Wise et. al, 1989; Wise & Olson, 1994).
  • The largest, most systematic work is a study, jointly funded by Scholastic Network, the Council of Great City Schools, and the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST). Participants included 500 students in grades four and six in seven urban school districts around the U.S. (CAST, 1996; Follansbee, Hughes, Pisha, & Stahl, 1997).  Each classroom completed an integrated learning unit on Civil Rights using a common curricular framework and common activities. Each class was encouraged to use traditional library resources as well as technology resources, including computers and multimedia software. The experimental classes also used the Internet for on-line resources, activities, and communication. Each student completed a project as a result of their participation in the unit. Evaluation of the final project showed significantly greater achievement on a number of measures for classrooms using Internet resources.
  • literacy is regularly being redefined within shorted time periods. This takes place as rapidly changing technologies for information and communication transform literacy and as users envision new ways of using these technologies for literate acts, transforming, in turn, the nature of these technologies.
ryano5643

The Benefits of Video Games - ABC News - 0 views

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  • A recent study from the Education Development Center and the U.S. Congress-supported Ready To Learn (RTL) Initiative found that a curriculum that involved digital media such as video games could improve early literacy skills when coupled with strong parental and teacher involvement. Interestingly, the study focused on young children, and 4- and 5-year-olds who participated showed increases in letter recognition, sounds association with letters, and understanding basic concepts about stories and print.
  • A study by the Education Department Center further found that low-income children are “better prepared for success in kindergarten when their preschool teachers incorporate educational video and games from the Ready to Learn Initiative.”
  • Even traditional games teach kids basic everyday skills, according to Ian Bogost, associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and founder of software maker Persuasive Games. “Look at ‘World of Warcraft’: You’ve got 11-year-olds who are learning to delegate responsibility, promote teamwork and steer groups of people toward a common goal.”
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  • In fact, results from the ONR study show that video game players perform 10 percent to 20 percent higher in terms of perceptual and cognitive ability than non-game players.
  • As Dr. Ezriel Kornel explains on WebMD.com, playing certain video games (e.g. Brain Age or Guitar Hero) can also improve hand-eye coordination, enhance split-second decision making and even, potentially, boost auditory perception.
  • A study published in the February edition of Archives of Surgery says that surgeons who regularly play video games are generally more skilled at performing laparoscopic surgery.
  • Besides offering medical students the ability to practice on patients (which is much safer in the digital world), simulations offer health care providers several upsides. Chief among them, Taekman says, are the abilities to make choices, see results and apply information immediately.
  • According to studies by Daphne Bavelier, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester, video gamers show real-world improvements on tests of attention, accuracy, vision and multitasking after playing certain titles.
  • In a series of experiments published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, researchers found that participants who had just played a “pro-social” game in which characters must work together to help each other out as compared to those who had just played a “neutral” game (e.g. Tetris) were more likely to engage in helpful behaviors. Examples included assisting in a situation involving an abusive boyfriend, picking up a box of pencils or even volunteering to participate in more research.
Kenneth Powell

Beyond Literacy | Gaming as a Literacy - 1 views

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  • gaming is different but it is still embedded in the construct of alphabet or notational literacy.
  • “If we think first in terms of semiotic domains and not in terms of reading and writing as traditionally conceived, we can say that people are (or are not) literate (partially or fully) in a domain if they can recognize (the equivalent of ‘reading’) and/or produce (the equivalent of ‘writing’) meanings in the domain.” Video games, “situate meaning in a multimodal space through embodied experiences to solve problems and reflect on the intricacies of the design of imagined worlds and the design of both real and imagined social relationships and identities in the modern world.
  • The immersive nature of digital games (think of virtual reality generally or something like Xbox 360 Kinect in particular) occurs the body and the mind are fully engaged in making meaning both by “reading” the game and creating components or actions (“writing”).
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  • While Gee has established digital games as a new literacy, Jane McGonigal has taken that idea and begun to develop the canon, the literature, of this new literacy
  • games as a tool to solve substantial problems and effect profound change.
  • McGonigal thinks of games as a tool and a grammar to articulate ideas and to generate and communicate new ideas. Her games, like Evoke or World Without Oil, are alternate reality games designed to engage diverse and distributed players in gaming modalities to explore difficult problems and propose (and model i.e. play out) potential solutions.
  • These are games, not merely as entertainment, but as a toolset (an alphabet) to create meaning. Perhaps the most intriguing of these is Foldit; a game created at the Center for Game Science at the University of Washington about protein folding, a highly complex problem.
  • Playing the game creates new solutions. Playing the game repeatedly refines those solutions, assists others, and furthers the research group’s knowledge and the number of useful outcomes. Rather than host a conference or set up a lab or publish a series of papers, these researchers initiated a globally accessible game and then simply watched what the participants came up with.
  • While the gaming experience is powerful and the effectiveness of games as a means to understand and be understood is undeniable, it is not sufficiently separate from its foundation in alphabetic literacy to qualify as a post-literate or emerging post-literate modality. However, the immersive and hypnotic nature of games suggests the kind of experience that might be a feature of post-literacy.
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cydney johnson

Research Summary - Cydney Johnson - 4 views

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israelj

Internet 'speeds up decision making and brain function' - Telegraph - 0 views

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  • Internet 'speeds up decision making and brain function' Internet use could improve brain function and speed up decision-making, but it comes at the expense of empathy and the ability to think in abstract terms, scientists have found.
  • A study of the use of areas of the brain during different activities found that it is markedly more active when carrying out an internet search than when reading a book.
  • The stimulation was concentrated in the frontal, temporal and cingulate areas, which control visual imagery, decision-making and memory.
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  • The study's authors say it shows how our brains could evolve over the long term with the increased use of technology.
  • Dr Gary Small, director of the memory and ageing research centre at the University of California, Los Angeles, said: "Young people are growing up immersed in this technology and their brains are more malleable, more plastic and changing than with older brains," he said.
  • "The next generation, as (Charles) Darwin suggests, will adapt to this environment. Those who become really good at technology will have a survival advantage - they will have a higher level of economic success and their progeny will be better off."
  • Participants were told to perform web searches and read books while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging scans, which record the blood flow to areas of the brain during cognitive tasks.The study found that those searching the web generated considerably more brain activity than those reading books. "A simple, everyday task like searching the web appears to enhance brain circuitry in older adults, demonstrating that our brains are sensitive and can continue to learn as we grow older," Dr Small said.
  • "The study results are encouraging, that emerging computerized technologies may have physiological effects and potential benefits for middle-aged and older adults. "Internet searching engages complicated brain activity, which may help exercise and improve brain function."The findings are expanded in Dr Small's book, iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind, and are published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
magrazel

Intro & Conclusion---- Digital Technology: The Greenhouse of Education Today - 5 views

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY: THE GREENHOUSE OF EDUCATION TODAY Intro: Technology in terms of increasing literacy skills is a debatable topic. Not because it hasn't worked, but because when it...

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israelj

Troy's Statement - 5 views

To be added to the 3 articles submitted. The definition of literacy is: "ability to read and write, reading/writing proficiency; competence or knowledge in a specified area." Bearing this in min...

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