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Mary Fahey Colbert

Q&A: Defining a New Deficit Disorder - TIME - 0 views

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      This supports in way my thought that students who lack executive function skills can use the computer to do their organization for them, and it will help get rid of some of the guilt in not being able to be on top of everything, just the things most pressing on any given day or week.
  • WHAT'S THE CURE? One the misconceptions is that people should be super-organized. But that's just not going to happen for most of us. It's a goal that just ends up making you feel guilty and think that you're a bad person. What I say to folks is: You don't have to be super-organized. Just be well-enough organized to reach your goals. The best treatment is to take time to slow down and think and connect with the outside world. And to stop being a total slave to your electronics.
Mary Fahey Colbert

The New Atlantis » The Myth of Multitasking - 0 views

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      This whole article is full of names of people who have done studies on the adverse effects of multitasking on learning.  Come back and chase down some of these studies.
  • In one recent study, Russell Poldrack, a psychology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that “multitasking adversely affects how you learn. Even if you learn while multitasking, that learning is less flexible and more specialized, so you cannot retrieve the information as easily.”
  • Also, “sensation-seeking” personality types are more likely to multitask, as are those living in “a highly TV-oriented household.” The picture that emerges of these pubescent multitasking mavens is of a generation of great technical facility and intelligence but of extreme impatience, unsatisfied with slowness and uncomfortable with silence: “I get bored if it’s not all going at once, because everything has gaps—waiting for a website to come up, commercials on TV, etc.” one participant said. The report concludes on a very peculiar note, perhaps intended to be optimistic: “In this media-heavy world, it is likely that brains that are more adept at media multitasking will be passed along and these changes will be naturally selected,” the report states. “After all, information is power, and if one can process more information all at once, perhaps one can be more powerful.” This is techno-social Darwinism, nature red in pixel and claw.
Mary Fahey Colbert

collision detection: "Attention Deficit Trait" - 0 views

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    "Attention Deficit Trait" Dr. Edward Hallowell has studied Attention Deficit Disorder for a decade, and now he thinks he's diagnosed a related sydrome: Attention Deficit Trait. It has basically the symptoms as ADD - such as an inability to concentrate on one task at at time - except it's context dependent.
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Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes by N. Katherine Ha... - 0 views

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    Networked and programmable media are part of a rapidly developing mediascape transforming how citizens of developed countries do business, conduct their social lives, communicate with each other, and perhaps most significantly, how they think.  This essay explores the hypothesis we are in the midst of a generational shift in cognitive styles that poses significant challenges to education at all levels, including colleges and universities.  The shift is more pronounced the younger the age group; already apparent in present-day college students, its full effects are likely to be realized only when youngsters who are now twelve years old reach our institutions of higher education.   To prepare, we need to become aware of the shift, understand its causes, and think creatively and innovatively about new educational strategies appropriate to the coming changes.
Mary Fahey Colbert

Your Brain on Computers - Attached to Technology and Paying a Price - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Interesting in that it talks about the effects on short-term memory, and they cite their son Conner as having issues in school with homework.
Mary Fahey Colbert

How Multitasking Affects Human Learning : NPR - 0 views

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    UCLA psychology professor Russell Poldrack
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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.
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains - Nicholas Carr - Google Books - 0 views

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    Find out if Marlboro College Library has a copy of this for loan, and if not buy it on Google books.  It will be an excellent source for one side of this issue of the effects of hypermedia immersion on student learning.  This is the same author of "Is Google making us stupider?"
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