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Mary Fahey Colbert

Joanne Cantor: Multitasking exercises - YouTube - 0 views

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    Another clip to watch later that might be helpful for impressing kids with the reason not to multitask while trying to learn.
Mary Fahey Colbert

Joanne Cantor: The Bad News about Multitasking - YouTube - 0 views

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    Watch this later.  It might be a good video to show students about the downsides of multitasking.  Joanne Cantor has other ones with actual "exercises" for addressing multitasking.
Mary Fahey Colbert

Stress of Multi-Tasking | OOHLALA Mobile - 2 views

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    This is a great inforgraphic to include to illustrate how we can "show" students what happens when they multitask.
Mary Fahey Colbert

Nine Elements - 1 views

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    This is a great source for speaking to the need for teaching good digital citizenship to students as one of the implications for pedagogy in the classroom.
Mary Fahey Colbert

http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigra... - 0 views

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    Marc Prensky is the guy who coined the terms:  digital natives and digital immigrants.  Use some of his views in the section:  Implications for education.
Mary Fahey Colbert

The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and tex... - 2 views

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    Great article to explain the dopamine squirt.
Mary Fahey Colbert

The shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains You are not a gadget: A manifest... - 0 views

  • Carr draws extensively from cognitive neuroscience literature to make his deterministic argument that the Internet is changing who we are. He weaves the findings together well, but on closer inspection, his use of the literature is occasionally questionable and at times outright indefensible. He seems to ignore the scientific literature that has actually found that new digital technologies might be better for how we learn (Gardner, 2006) and how we socialize (Pew, 2010). Furthermore, in his discussion of hypertext and the ways it hurts deep thinking, he draws from a Canadian study (Landow & Delaney, 2001) that, as Rosenberg (2010) argues, does not prove Carr's argument. The study was actually analyzing a specific type of hypertext fiction and was never meant to be extended to all hypertext. This example is a microcosm of Carr's book as a whole, a valid argument that extends itself too far.
  • Both Carr and Lanier provide inflammatory arguments about the Internet that will surely anger some readers. The strengths of these books are their ability to question widely held beliefs of digital evangelism and to make their criticisms accessible to mainstream audiences (though Gadget occasionally may get too technical for some). As we discussed above, the books do have their problems, but they may still prove valuable in an undergraduate course or any introduction to media criticism. Students would be able to read accessible accounts questioning widely accepted orthodoxy, and they would also be able to evaluate areas where each author takes his argument further than evidence allows.
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    This is a good review and refutation of some of Nicholas Carr's assertions/arguments in "The Shallows," and it also has some further resources for me to investigate from the references.
Mary Fahey Colbert

Overview of responses | Pew Internet & American Life Project - 0 views

  • Futurist John Smart, president and founder of the Acceleration Studies Foundation, recalled an insight of economist Simon Kuznets about evolution of technology effects known as the Kuznets curve: “First-generation tech usually causes ‘net negative’ social effects; second-generation ‘net neutral’ effects; by the third generation of tech—once the tech is smart enough, and we've got the interface right, and it begins to reinforce the best behaviors—we finally get to ‘net positive’ effects,” he noted. “We'll be early into conversational interface and agent technologies by 2020, so kids will begin to be seriously intelligently augmented by the internet. There will be many persistent drawbacks however [so the effect at this point will be net neutral]. The biggest problem from a personal-development perspective will be motivating people to work to be more self-actualized, productive, and civic than their parents were. They'll be more willing than ever to relax and remain distracted by entertainments amid accelerating technical productivity. “As machine intelligence advances,” Smart explained, “the first response of humans is to offload their intelligence and motivation to the machines. That's a dehumanizing, first-generation response. Only the later, third-generation educational systems will correct for this.”
Mary Fahey Colbert

Watch Video Hayles Widescreen at blinkx - 0 views

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    Video of N. Katherine Hayles, Professor of Literature at Duke University.  She's a hot ticket!
Mary Fahey Colbert

The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York Magazine - 0 views

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    This was an article referenced by Carr in his book, The Shallows, and I looked it up as a counterargument to some of Carr's assertions.  This is perfect for my research.
Mary Fahey Colbert

Nicholas Carr - The Colbert Report - 2010-30-06 - Video Clip | Comedy Central - 0 views

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    This interview is specifically about his book, The Shallows.
Mary Fahey Colbert

Nicholas Carr - The Colbert Report - 2008-25-09 - Video Clip | Comedy Central - 0 views

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    I found this and one other video of Nicholas Carr being interviewed on the The Colbert Report.  Both will be good additions to my bibliography as they speak directly, from the horse's mouth, to my source, The Shallows:  What the Internet is doing to Our Brains.
Mary Fahey Colbert

Millennial Generation and Economic Meltdown - Video Dailymotion - 0 views

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    This is a short interview with Kanna Hudson, a millennial "consultant" ?  She has some interesting things to say about this generation in the workforce:  team players, community, quicker dissatisfaction with jobs, need to go to college, and the attendant debts.
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