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dmassicg

How Do Millennials Like to Read the News? Very Much Like Their Grandparents - Derek Tho... - 34 views

www.theatlantic.com/...266126

elearning book trends

shared by dmassicg on 18 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Attention publishers: For all the attention given to "bold rich multi-media experiences," young mobile news readers still prefer stories the way their great-great-grandparents did: In columns of text.
Carol Ansel

Clive Thompson on the Future of Reading in a Digital World - 4 views

www.wired.com/...st_thompson

shared by Carol Ansel on 18 Jan 12 - Cached
  • One of the chief pleasures of a book is mental solitude, that deep, quiet focus on an author's thoughts—and your own.
    • Carol Ansel
      Carol Ansel on 18 Jan 12
       
      I'm glad this was pointed out - while I don't disagree that online books have great potential for community interaction, I can also see more clutter, distraction and fragmentation of attention as a side effect.
Deborah King

Clive Thompson on Why Kids Can't Search | Magazine - 204 views

www.wired.com/...st_thompson_searchresults

website_evaluation research information_literacy

shared by Deborah King on 09 Nov 11 - No Cached
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  • how savvy
  • If they’re naive at Googling, it’s because the ability to judge information is almost never taught in school.
  • intelligent search a key to everyday problem-solving
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  • a golden opportunity to train kids in critical thinking.
  • “The big thing in assessing search results is authorship—who put it there and why have they put it there?”
  • “This is learning how to learn.”
  • , mastering “crap detection 101,”
  • One prerequisite is that you already know a lot about the world.
  • Google makes broad-based knowledge more important, not less
  • But, crucially, she also trains students to assess the credibility of what they find online. For example, she teaches them to analyze the tone of a web page to judge whether it was created by an academic, an advocacy group, or a hobbyist.
  • she also trains students to assess the credibility of what they find online. For example, she teaches them to analyze the tone of a web page to judge whether it was created by an academic, an advocacy group, or a hobbyist.
  • she also trains students to assess the credibility of what they find online. For example, she teaches them to analyze the tone of a web page to judge whether it was created by an academic, an advocacy group, or a hobbyist
  • she also trains students to assess the credibility of what they find online. For example, she teaches them to analyze the tone of a web page to judge whether it was created by an academic, an advocacy group, or a hobbyist.
  • kids grok the intricacies
  • A group of researchers led by College of Charleston business professor Bing
  • Gil Anspacher on 09 Nov 11
     
    All subjects need to teach students how to search for, analyze and utilize digital information within the subject area. This is where students will be getting info until someone pulls the plug or locks them in a bookmobile.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 13 Nov 11
     
    "We're often told that young people tend to be the most tech-savvy among us. But just how savvy are they? ,,, High school and college students may be "digital natives," but they're wretched at searching."
Jon Orech

Clive Thompson on the New Literacy - 3 views

www.wired.com/...st_thompson

writing literacy research

shared by Jon Orech on 26 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The fact that students today almost always write for an audience (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing. In interviews, they defined good prose as something that had an effect on the world. For them, writing is about persuading and organizing and debating, even if it's over something as quotidian as what movie to go see. The Stanford students were almost always less enthusiastic about their in-class writing because it had no audience but the professor: It didn't serve any purpose other than to get them a grade.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 26 Aug 09
       
      Quite so. This is one reason I have students blog where practicable.
  • The brevity of texting and status updating teaches young people to deploy haiku-like concision.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 26 Aug 09
       
      Twitter to haiku, Not such a leap, after all: Hone your brevity
  • When Lunsford examined the work of first-year students, she didn't find a single example of texting speak in an academic paper.
    • tom campbell
      tom campbell on 29 Aug 09
       
      Stanford 1st year students - check the applicant profile - http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/basics/selection/profile.html These are among the top tiered students in the country.
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  • know is that knowing who you're writing for and why you're writing might be the most crucial factor of all.
  • young people today write far more than any generation before them
  • (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good
  • kids today can't write—and technology is to blame.
  • "I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," she says. For Lunsford, technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold new directions
  • Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn't a school assignment
  • Lunsford's team found that the students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos—assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across.
  • students today almost always write for an audience
  • (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good
Brian Unruh

Welcome to AEA 267 - 0 views

www.aea267.k12.ia.us

shared by Brian Unruh on 12 May 09 - Cached
  • Congratulations to Helen Hinders, Aplington-Parkersburg Middle School; Krista State, CAL Elementary of Latimer; and Larry Thompson, Four Oaks in Mason City who are this year’s AEA 267 Outstanding Paraeducator Award winners.
  • Visit the AEA booth at the Iowa State Fair
ddchamberlain

I'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...07awareness-t.html

shared by ddchamberlain on 09 Sep 09 - Cached
  • For many people — particularly anyone over the age of 30 — the idea of describing your blow-by-blow activities in such detail is absurd. Why would you subject your friends to your daily minutiae? And conversely, how much of their trivia can you absorb? The growth of ambient intimacy can seem like modern narcissism taken to a new, supermetabolic extreme — the ultimate expression of a generation of celebrity-addled youths who believe their every utterance is fascinating and ought to be shared with the world.
    • ddchamberlain
      ddchamberlain on 09 Sep 09
       
      Do you think this is a fair critique? Is this a generational issue? Why or why not?
  • “ambient awareness.”
Uche Amaechi

Clive Thompson on How Group Think Rules What We Like | Magazine - 32 views

www.wired.com/...st_clive_thompson

shared by Uche Amaechi on 11 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Uche Amaechi on 11 Jan 10
     
    Self Fulfilling prophecy--basing our ideas on what other people think.
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