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scott L

Beyond McLuhan: Your New Media Studies Syllabus - 102 views

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    syllabus from a PhD level class at rutgers on the new medias
Jørgen Mortensen

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? - The Atlantic - 41 views

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    "The allure of independence, so powerful to previous generations, holds less sway over today's teens."
Josh Flores

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Magazine - The Atlantic - 48 views

    • donheberer85
       
      I love the picture
    • Josh Flores
       
      I think we forget to ADD our knowledge to the "great database" in the sky. Maybe our curriculum needs more of this?
  • Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes
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  • media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought
  • chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation
    • Josh Flores
       
      Another challenge and another reason to totally re-haul the way curriculum is developed and delivered.
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    ""Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?" So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial " brain. "Dave, my mind is going," HAL says, forlornly. "I can feel it. I can feel it." "
Jeff Andersen

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? - The Atlantic - 13 views

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    ne day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone-she's had an iPhone since she was 11-sounding as if she'd just woken up. We chatted about her favorite songs and TV shows, and I asked her what she likes to do with her friends. "We go to the mall," she said. "Do your parents drop you off?," I asked, recalling my own middle-school days, in the 1980s, when I'd enjoy a few parent-free hours shopping with my friends. "No-I go with my family," she replied. "We'll go with my mom and brothers and walk a little behind them. I just have to tell my mom where we're going. I have to check in every hour or every 30 minutes."
Dallas McPheeters

Are 'Learning Styles' Real? - The Atlantic - 34 views

  • Really, Willingham says, people have different abilities, not styles. Some people read better than others; some people hear worse than others. But most of the tasks we encounter are only really suited to one type of learning. You can’t visualize a perfect French accent, for example.
    • Dallas McPheeters
       
      Learning Abilities not Learning Styles
carmelladoty

Why Some Schools Are Selling All Their iPads - The Atlantic - 138 views

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    Interesting article about IPads being replaced by Chromebooks.
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