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Mary Fahey Colbert

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

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      Mary Fahey Colbert on 15 May 12
       
      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.
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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.
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Your Brain on Computers - Attached to Technology and Paying a Price - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Mary Fahey Colbert on 27 May 12
     
    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.
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http://www.myatp.org/Synergy_1/Syn_16.pdf - 0 views

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  • Mary Fahey Colbert on 27 May 12
     
    The article I need to read later, and I will also want to  check out some of the cited sources at the end for my own research.
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Learning & the Brain - Connecting Educators to Neuroscientists and Researchers - 0 views

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    Larry D. Rosen, PhD, Research Psychologist; Professor, Department of Psychology, California State University, Dominguez Hills; Author, REWIRED: Understanding the iGeneration and How They Learn (2010)
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Daily Media Use Among Children and Teens Up Dramatically From Five Years Ago - Kaiser F... - 0 views

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      Mary Fahey Colbert on 27 May 12
       
      And here is the crux of the matter for me, is it a cause and effect or not?  Are the kids who are not doing so well sucked into media because they are already prone to this kind of stimulus (meaning they already have attention issues, just not of diagnosable degree) or are all kids being effected in this way?
  • Heavy media users report getting lower grades.  While the study cannot establish a cause and effect relationship between media use and grades, there are differences between heavy and light media users in this regard.  About half (47%) of heavy media users say they usually get fair or poor grades (mostly Cs or lower), compared to about a quarter (23%) of light users.  These differences may or may not be influenced by their media use patterns. (Heavy users are the 21% of young people who consume more than 16 hours of media a day, and light users are the 17% of young people who consume less than 3 hours of media a day.)
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Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis? - 0 views

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      Mary Fahey Colbert on 27 May 12
       
      This is so true.  I like the idea of assessing what students know through a visual medium, since that's where their literacy skills lie, but my own experience is that many students don't know how to produce good visuals beyond a PowerPoint.
  • "If you're a pilot, you need to be able to monitor multiple instruments at the same time. If you're a cab driver, you need to pay attention to multiple events at the same time. If you're in the military, you need to multi-task too," she said. "On the other hand, if you're trying to solve a complex problem, you need sustained concentration. If you are doing a task that requires deep and sustained thought, multi-tasking is detrimental."
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      Mary Fahey Colbert on 27 May 12
       
      This is common sense.
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      Mary Fahey Colbert on 27 May 12
       
      I don't agree with this statement.  It depends on how the teacher decides to deliver the content, and it depends on what the students are doing online.
  • Mary Fahey Colbert on 27 May 12
     
    Patricia Greenfield - look up her research at UCLA.  It's from 2009, which was three years ago at this point, so it's not the most current research.  Based on some of the sticky notes others have posted, there are some generalizations made that bare closer scrutiny.
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Scholars Turn Their Attention to Attention - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Hi... - 0 views

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      Here it is, again, the rub.  If someone believes they are performing well while engaged in several things (i.e. my students), how can you combat that as a teacher?  We see with our beliefs not our eyes.
  • That illusion of competence is one of the things that worry scholars who study attention, cognition, and the classroom. Students' minds have been wandering since the dawn of education. But until recently—so the worry goes—students at least knew when they had checked out. A student today who moves his attention rapid-fire from text-messaging to the lecture to Facebook to note-taking and back again may walk away from the class feeling buzzed and alert, with a sense that he has absorbed much more of the lesson than he actually has.
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      Mary Fahey Colbert on 27 May 12
       
      Again, in the classroom, there are so many stimulus driven distractions that the controlled attention function of a number of students is drowned.  The "stimulant" addiction if you will, further undermines focus on content because it doesn't provide "stimulant"!!  It's all so, "Boring!"  
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  • The consensus today is that there are overlapping but neurologically distinct systems: one of controlled attention, which you use to push yourself to read another page of Faulkner, and one of stimulus-driven attention, which kicks in when someone shatters a glass behind you.
  • In other words—to borrow a metaphor from other scholars—people with strong working-memory capacities don't have a larger nightclub in their brains. They just have better bouncers working the velvet rope outside. Strong attentional abilities produce stronger fluid intelligence, Kane and others believe.
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      Mary Fahey Colbert on 27 May 12
       
      This is common sense to me, but will working memory improve with practice on focused tasks or not?  As an educator, I believe it will and does, at least to a certain degree.
  • Foerde and her colleagues argue that when the subjects were distracted, they learned the weather rules through a half-conscious system of "habit memory," and that when they were undistracted, they encoded the weather rules through what is known as the declarative-memory system. (Indeed, brain imaging suggested that different areas of the subjects' brains were activated during the two conditions.) That distinction is an important one for educators, Foerde says, because information that is encoded in declarative memory is more flexible—that is, people are more likely to be able to draw analogies and extrapolate from it.
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      Mary Fahey Colbert on 27 May 12
       
      This happens in my classroom all of the time!  A student like Cenzo can tell me what was just discussed right after the moment it happened, but he cannot hold onto it for a quiz the next day.
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      Mary Fahey Colbert on 27 May 12
       
      I love this!  I am going to try this with my students to illustrate the point.  They cannot be talking or texting secretly in their laps and still get what's going on in class.
  • He might, for example, ask students to recite the letters A through J as fast as possible, and then the numbers 1 through 10. Each of those tasks typically takes around two seconds. Then he asks them to interweave the two recitations as fast as they can: "A, 1, B, 2," and so on. Does that take four seconds? No, it typically requires 15 to 20 seconds, and even then many students make mistakes.
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      Mary Fahey Colbert on 27 May 12
       
      Try to find Dr. Hayles' articles on this for a different perspective.
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      Mary Fahey Colbert on 27 May 12
       
      Good point.  We are not going to change the tide, so this will be our challenge.
  • And our pedagogical challenge will be to combine hyper attention with deep attention and to cultivate both. And we can't do that if we start by stigmatizing hyper attention as inferior thinking."
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      Mary Fahey Colbert on 27 May 12
       
      Good question.
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    Great article, and I think I will look into publishing requirements for this journal.
Mary Fahey Colbert

Turning Into Man Machines: Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows" | Strangers on the Shore - 0 views

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    This guy gives a great review of "The Shallows" by Nicholas Carr, and he goes on to talk about how he hopes to see educators come to with appropriate Internet use:           "It's not impossible that educators will come to a consensus about what constitutes healthy Internet usage and we come to think about it in the way we now think about risks to our physical health. Perhaps children in 10 years' time will be taught to do 2 hours' book reading for every hour online." This is the ultimate challenge I see facing me and all of us in the classroom.  We do need to address the reading and empathy piece head on, but how is the question.
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Nicholas Carr on what the internet is doing to our brains - 0 views

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    I want to download this podcast, so I can play it for students in class, or have them "listen" at home for homework before assigning chapters for homework.
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.
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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.
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Nicholas Carr - The Colbert Report - 2008-25-09 - Video Clip | Comedy Central - 0 views

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  • Mary Fahey Colbert on 23 Jul 12
     
    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.
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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.
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains - Nicholas Carr - Google Books - 0 views

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  • Mary Fahey Colbert on 12 Jun 12
     
    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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