Is technology changing how students learn? - Daniel Willingham - 0 views
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a lot of psychologists are actually skeptical that digital media are likely to fundamentally change the fundamentals of human cognition.
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Steven Pinker has written "Electronic media aren't going to revamp the brain's mechanisms of information processing." I made the same argument here.
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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.
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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.