The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (2008), by Mark Bauerlein, provides alarming statistical support for the suspicion — widespread among professors (including me) — that young Americans are arriving at college with diminished verbal skills, an impaired work ethic, an inability to concentrate, and a lack of knowledge even as more and more money is spent on education.
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How Multitasking Affects Human Learning : NPR - 0 views
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UCLA psychology professor Russell Poldrack
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.
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.
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.
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.
MEET THE MILLENNIALS Kanna Hudson - 0 views
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Even though most of my students are at the very tail end of this millenial generation, many of the generalizations still fit. Kanna Hudson, a millenial herself put together this slide show, and she states some specific characteristics that work for my research paper.
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!
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.
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.
Ed/ITLib Digital Library → No Access - 0 views
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Coghlan, M. (2011). Thinking Deeply About the Shallows. In T. Bastiaens & M. Ebner (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2011 (pp. 1038-1043). Chesapeake, VA: AACE. Retrieved from http://www.editlib.org/p/37999. I need to see if Marlboro College Library has access to this paper.
On Stupidity - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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t seems that our students are dumb and ignorant, but their self-esteem is high so they are impervious or hostile to criticism. Approaching his subject from the right, Bauerlein mentions the usual suspects — popular culture, pandering by educators, the culture war, etc. — but also reserves special attention for the digital technologies, which, for all their promise, have only more deeply immersed students in the peer obsessions of entertainment and fashion rather than encouraging more mature and sustained thought about politics, history, science, and the arts.
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Uncertain about academic honesty and what constitutes plagiarism. (I recently had a student defend herself by claiming that her paper was more than 50 percent original, so she should receive that much credit, at least.)
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The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (2008), by Mark Bauerlein, provides alarming statistical support for the suspicion - widespread among professors (including me) - that young Americans are arriving at college with diminished verbal skills, an impaired work ethic, an inability to concentrate, and a lack of knowledge even as more and more money is spent on education.
Multitasking has negative effect on student academic work | Social Media in Higher Educ... - 0 views
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This article comes from an Academic Journal.
Is Technology Making Your Students Stupid? - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 0 views
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I won't have time to read Nicholas Carr's book, "The Shallows," so this interview with him about his assertions in it is useful for my research.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/EJ889151.pdf - 0 views
I Said, 'Not While You Study!' - 0 views
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Another article about the downsides of multitasking, which sites some good research studies.
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