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Mary Fahey Colbert

Scholars Turn Their Attention to Attention - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Hi... - 0 views

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      Mary Fahey Colbert on 27 May 12
       
      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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      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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 point.  We are not going to change the tide, so this will be our challenge.
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      Mary Fahey Colbert on 27 May 12
       
      Good question.
  • Mary Fahey Colbert on 27 May 12
     
    Great article, and I think I will look into publishing requirements for this journal.
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Students and the stress of Multitasking - HOME - Edgalaxy: Where Education an... - 0 views

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  • Mary Fahey Colbert on 21 Jul 12
     
    Good resource for me for ideas and lesson plans as well as another source for my paper.  The pictorial flow chart about what happens to the brain while multitasking and how information overload occurs is simple and clear.  It will be another good source to share with students.
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  • his experimental study suggests that students who IM while reading will perform as well but take longer to complete the task than those who do not IM while reading or those students who IM before reading.
  • Mary Fahey Colbert on 19 Jun 12
     
    Another research finding that suggests multitasking while doing school work takes students longer to accomplish.  Add this research to that argument.
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On Stupidity - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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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.
  • 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.
  • 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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  • Uncertain about spelling and punctuation (and skeptical that such skills matter).
  • We need to reverse the customer-service mentality that goes hand-in-hand with the transformation of most college teaching into a part-time, transient occupation and the absence of any reliable assessment of course outcomes besides student evaluations.
  • Of course, we lament that the skills we have acquired at great pains can become lost to the next generation, but we can hardly reverse all of it. And it may be that the young are better adapted to what is coming than we are.
  • Mary Fahey Colbert on 23 Jun 12
     
    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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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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Stress of Multi-Tasking | OOHLALA Mobile - 2 views

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  • Mary Fahey Colbert on 01 Aug 12
     
    This is a great inforgraphic to include to illustrate how we can "show" students what happens when they multitask.
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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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    This is from an older issue, 2004, so I probaby won't use it in my research paper, but it is background information and confirms my own experience with students in high school who think nothing is wrong with plagiarizing and copying each others homework.
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JSTOR: Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Vol. 52, No. 6 (Mar., 2009), pp. 471-481 - 0 views

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  • Mary Fahey Colbert on 24 Jun 12
     
    Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20468390 Good article to sum up an overall picture of the goal of teaching students media literacy.
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The Millennial View-Don't Be: "Young & Distracted" | Management Excellence by Art Petty - 0 views

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    This blog post is by a "millenial" about some of his peers who are multitasking non-productively in the workplace.  This advice also applies to students in the classroom. 
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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.
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MEET THE MILLENNIALS Kanna Hudson - 0 views

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  • Mary Fahey Colbert on 23 Jul 12
     
    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.
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  • Mary Fahey Colbert on 31 Jul 12
     
    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.
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Joanne Cantor: The Bad News about Multitasking - YouTube - 0 views

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  • Mary Fahey Colbert on 04 Aug 12
     
    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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  • 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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    This is a someone positing how to combat student inattention during lectures by offering public notes vs. student's taking their own.
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    This is an article that is drilling down to what's going on in the classroom.
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Title:Taking on multitasking: students will continue to media multitask--to their own d... - 0 views

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  • Therefore, the impairing effect of multitasking upon learning may be related to reduced brain resources that are available to satisfactorily complete tasks when they're tried together.
  • Mary Fahey Colbert on 16 Jun 12
     
    This looks promising for my research. Come back and read later.
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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.
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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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