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Joel Scanga

MinecraftEdu - 0 views

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Minecraft

shared by Joel Scanga on 13 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Joel Scanga on 13 Feb 13
     
    MinecraftEdu - Free to Download - "Wonderful World of Humanities" map, featuring various worlds from ancient history and tons of information to read / secrets to find / building projects to collaborate on, etc.
Sarah Ducharme

The impact of digital technologies on human wellbeing - 1 views

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mindfulness technology

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    See "recommendations" page 67
Will Acme

Is technology changing how students learn? - Daniel Willingham - 0 views

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willingham cognitive psychology attention technology

shared by Will Acme on 14 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • a lot of psychologists are actually skeptical that digital media are likely to fundamentally change the fundamentals of human cognition.
  • Steven Pinker has written "Electronic media aren't going to revamp the brain's mechanisms of information processing." I made the same argument here.
  • he basic architecture is likely to be relatively fixed, and in the absence of extreme deprivation, will develop fairly predictably.
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  • Rather, the seemingly shorter attention span is their ability to maintain attention on a task that is not very interesting to them.
  • The second is the willingness to do so.
  • It's much easier for me to accept that one's beliefs--beliefs about what is worthy of my attention, beliefs about how much effort I should dispense to tasks--can be moved around, because beliefs are a product of experience.
Will Acme

Mindful Use of Technology - 42 views

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mindful mindfulness technology distraction addiction

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