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Scott Perloff

Social Media in Education: Resource Roundup | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Scott Perloff on 10 Nov 14
     
    This collection of blogs, articles, and videos from Edutopia aims to help teachers deploy social media tools in the classroom to engage students in 21st-century learning.
Scott Perloff

The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens: Scientific A... - 1 views

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  • Bob Kahn on 15 Sep 13
     
    Wow- look at this comment about this article- The process of reading transmitted light vs. reflective light is processed in different regions of the visual cortex. The regions of the brain devoted to the hand are many and varied. Reading accesses both the visual ability and the kinesthetic/hand abilities/regions of the brain. The pixelated microsecond flashes on a electronic device, or a computer, do not engage the many regions of the brain devoted to hand/speech as print in a hand-held book. The combination of data overload available today in a form that promotes reduction of long-term memory does not bode well for future decision-making and serious cognitive pursuits. Marshall Mcluhan of McGill intuitively posited "hot and cold" media in Understanding Media back in the 80's. And Jane Healy in 1980, wrote about the effects of TV on children in her book, Endangered Minds. I'm far from a Luddite on tech developments. But the neuroscience research is becoming stronger everyday on the lessening abilities of learning and memory with our new reading devices. Book rhymes with Nook but that's the end of the similarity.
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InCtrl :: Cable in the Classroom - 0 views

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    Digital citizenship education empowers students to make thoughtful decisions and develop a sound digital foundation for the rest of their lives. Cable in the Classroom brings you a series of free, standards-based lessons that teach key digital citizenship concepts. These lessons, for students in grades 4-8, are designed to engage students through inquiry-based activities, and collaborative and creative opportunities.
Bob Kahn

Programming Power? Does Learning to Code Empower Kids? | DMLcentral - 0 views

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  • it’s clear that even professional coding is a complex and precarious activity.
  • incessant updating of skills and fluency in different programming languages, coding packages, operating systems, and so on—such an impossible learning requirement that many programming experts barely know what they are doing.
  • “ignorant expertise,”
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  • Even more alarmingly, the technical complexity of programming means that many programmers are so absorbed in solving technical problems that they overlook the human and social consequences of what they are producing
  • software development has high failure rates to show it.
  • how dominant capitalist algorithmic ideology works.
  • how political and economic ambitions around learning to code rest on glossy representations that bear little resemblance with the reality of instability, dysfunction and failure in the software landscape, or with the ideologies underpinning its practices.
  • about the democratizing potential of programming and arguments advocating learning to code that are based on ideas about learning to produce and not just consume technologies.
  • it’s important to be a little cautious of the claims around “democratisation,” “co-production,” “presumption,” and so on, that accompany these kinds of arguments.
  • He argues that the software algorithms running in social media are a new source of social power, or “algorithmic power,” that is increasingly altering the actual functioning of culture in everyday settings.
  • commercial sponsorship of learning to code initiatives and activities by many of today’s most powerful social media and computing companies is evidence of this entanglement of media engagement and corporate power in an increasingly algorithmic culture.
  • be studied and researched carefully in order to get past the hype.
  • Looking at learning to code in terms of power serves as a reminder that while programming may be an empowering activity, it is also shaped by wider issues of power in educational technology, the political and economic power that shapes programming, and the algorithmic power shaping cultural participation with digital media.
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