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scientists from the University of Chicago reported that young children who understand how shapes fit together are better able to use a number line and to solve computation problems.

media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought.

what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation

Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking—perhaps even a new sense of the self. “

In attempts to integrate mobile technology, educators are left to the mercy of app developers who or may or may not fully understand how imperative it is that our children become critical and creative thinkers.

I will highlight apps useful for developing higher order thinking skills

Apps that fit into the "remembering" stage improve the user's ability to define terms, identify facts, and recall and locate information.