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iriemisterg

Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis? | UCLA - 1 views

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  • As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined, while our visual skills have improved, according to research by Patricia Greenfield, UCLA distinguished professor of psychology and director of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles.
  • gdebalski on 09 Jun 14
     
    "No one medium is good for everything," Greenfield said. "If we want to develop a variety of skills, we need a balanced media diet. Each medium has costs and benefits in terms of what skills each develops." This makes sense, the problem in society today is that we are much heavier technology users, and our other communication skills are becoming overshadowed.
Brittney Chambers

The 4 Negative Side Effects Of Technology - Edudemic - 2 views

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literacy decline technology research effects Debate

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  • Though we can’t deny the endowments that the current era of advancement has provides us with, but like any other thing, we cannot deny the fact that there is always two sides to everything: Good and Bad.
  • Let’s take a look at the top 4 ways that overuse of technology has influenced our children in an adverse manne
  • 1. Elevated Exasperation These days, children indulge themselves in internet, games or texting. These activities have affected their psyche negatively, consequently leading to increased frustration. Now they get frustrated whenever they are asked to do anything while playing games or using internet. For instance, when their parents ask them to take the trash out, they get furious instantly. This behavior has shattered many parent-children relationships.
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  • 2. Deteriorated Patience Patience is a very precious virtue and its scarcity could deteriorate a person’s Will. Determination is a necessity that comes with patience and without it no individual can survive the hardships of life. According to studies, tolerance in children is vanishing quite increasingly due to the improper use of technology. For example, children get frustrated quickly when they surf internet and the page they want to view takes time to load
  • 3. Declining Writing Skills Due to the excessive usage of online chatting and shortcuts, the writing skills of today’s young generation have declined quite tremendously. These days, children are relying more and more on digital communication that they have totally forgot about improving their writing skills. They don’t know the spelling of different words, how to use grammar properly or how to do cursive writing.
  • 4. Lack of Physical Interactivity No one can deny the fact that the advancement of technology has produced a completely unique method of interaction and communication. Now, more and more people are interacting with others through different platforms like apps, role-playing online games, social networks, etc. This advancement has hampered the physical interaction skills of many children. Due to that they don’t know how to interact with others when they meet them in-person or what gesture they should carry.
  • maelichauros on 10 Jun 14
     
    The bit I highlighted ties in well with my source from Johns Hopkins
  • Brittney Chambers on 12 Jun 14
     
    4 negative effects of tecnhology
Brittney Chambers

Children who read on iPads or Kindles have weaker literacy skills, charity warns | Mail... - 1 views

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  • Children who read on iPads or Kindles have weaker literacy skills and are less likely to enjoy it as a pastime, charity warnsSurvey of 35,000 pupils finds majority of youngst
  • ers now read on screenebooks also reducing the number of children who enjoy reading as a pastime 'Children who only read on-screen are significantly less likely to enjoy reading and less likely to be strong readers', National Literacy Trust says
  • Children who read on an iPad or Kindle are falling behind in the classroom as figures showed for the first time the majority of youngsters now prefer ebooks to printed versions
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  • The advance of technology means that young people who read on a screen have weaker literacy skills and fewer children now enjoy reading, experts have said.
  • A survey, conducted by The National Literacy Trust, found that 52 per cent of children preferred to read on an electronic device - including e-readers, computers and smartphones - while only 32 per cent said they would rather read a physical book.
  • Pupils who get free school meals, generally a sign they are from poorer backgrounds, are the least likely group to pick up a traditional book, the research found.
  • Boys in particular would prefer to read on a computer screen and the change in trend has encouraged many publishers to cash in by offering electronic versions of comics and books.The number of children and young people reading newspapers has fallen from 46.8 per cent in 2005 to 31.2 per cent in 2012
  • Brittney Chambers on 12 Jun 14
     
    Amazing facts and statistics that I think will be good to use!!! 
iriemisterg

Technology: A decrease in literacy skills. by Makayla Vikander on Prezi - 2 views

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  • There is plenty of evidence that literacy skills continue to decline. U.S. government data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress shows that after years of educational reforms, high school seniors scored worse on a national reading test than they had back in 1992. Less than three-quarters of U.S. 12th graders scored at at least the “basic” level, down from 80% in the early 1990s.
  • gdebalski on 09 Jun 14
     
    This is a good base for us. I was thinking our opening statement would be a sentence, but I think I was wrong. This looks much better with a full paragraph beginning the argument.
iriemisterg

ORLANDO, Fla.: Professor says teens' social media lingo hurts writing skills | Technolo... - 1 views

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  • But some writing advocates say Twitter’s frugal word structure, Facebook’s short-post syntax and acronym-filled text messages are degrading writing skills.
  • gdebalski on 09 Jun 14
     
    "Just the other day, I asked my students to write four lines of dialogue they had over the weekend," said Terry Thaxton, a University of Central Florida English professor who runs the summer writing camp Shelby attended earlier this month. "Three of them reached for their phones to read their text messages. They said they couldn't remember any face-to-face conversations." This part raises a good point.
gdebalski

Does texting hurt writing skills? - TimesDaily: Archives - 0 views

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  • According to a recent report from Pew Internet and American Life Project, "Writing, Technology and Teens," the vast amount of cell phone text-based abbreviated communications teens use is showing up in more formal writing.
  • Out of 700 youth aged 12-17 who participated in the phone survey, 60 percent say they don't consider electronic communications - e-mail, instant messaging, mobile text - to be writing in the formal sense; 63 percent say it has no impact on the writing they do for school and 64 percent report inadvertently using some form of shorthand common to electronic text, including emotions, incorrect grammar or punctuation.
  • "I work at the school's writing center and I would suspect that some of the mistakes I see in writing assignments are text related
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  • Billy Ray Warren, secondary curriculum director for Florence schools, said texting has definitely contributed to the decline in writing skills.
jmdurham

Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis? -- ScienceDaily - 2 views

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  • "However,
  • most visual media are real-time media that do not allow time for reflection, analysis or imagination — those do not get developed by real-time media such as television or video games. Technology is not a panacea in education, because of the skills that are being lost.
  • Among the studies Greenfield analyzed was a classroom study showing that students who were given access to the Internet during class and were encouraged to use it during lectures did not process what the speaker said as well as students who did not have Internet access
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  • Another study Greenfield analyzed found that college students who watched "CNN Headline News" with just the news anchor on screen and without the "news crawl" across the bottom of the screen remembered significantly more facts from the televised broadcast than those who watched it with the distraction of the crawling text and with additional stock market and weather information on the screen
  • These and other studies show that multi-tasking "prevents people from getting a deeper understanding of information," Greenfield said.
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