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Dave Truss

Your Brain on Computers - Attached to Technology and Paying a Price - NYTimes.com - 9 views

www.nytimes.com/...07brain.html

multitasking attention

shared by Dave Truss on 07 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 07 Jun 10
     
    While many people say multitasking makes them more productive, research shows otherwise. Heavy multitaskers actually have more trouble focusing and shutting out irrelevant information, scientists say, and they experience more stress. And scientists are discovering that even after the multitasking ends, fractured thinking and lack of focus persist. In other words, this is also your brain off computers. "The technology is rewiring our brains,"
Vicki Davis

With Tech Tools, How Should Teachers Tackle Multitasking In Class? | MindShift - 4 views

blogs.kqed.org/...s-tackle-multitasking-in-class

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shared by Vicki Davis on 08 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 08 Dec 13
     
    An important conversation with interviews and some research about how to deal with multitasking. AS for me, if I could really really turn off notifications on my ios devices, that would suffice and it would for most students.
Brendan Murphy

How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking - Peter Bregman - Harvard Business Review - 18 views

blogs.hbr.org/...nd-why-to-stop-multitaski.html

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shared by Brendan Murphy on 05 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Brendan Murphy on 05 Jun 10
     
    Standing still and focusing on delivering instructions quicky can and often does help in classroom management.
Brian C. Smith

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...google

shared by Brian C. Smith on 11 Jun 08 - Cached
  • What the Internet is doing to our brains
  • A new e-mail message, for instance, may announce its arrival as we’re glancing over the latest headlines at a newspaper’s site. The result is to scatter our attention and diffuse our concentration.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 17 Jun 08
       
      Some might call this multitasking... but "good" multitasking needs to be purposeful. Those who can filter those attention scattering and diffusing interuptions just may be getting smarter.
  • Most of the proprietors of the commercial Internet have a financial stake in collecting the crumbs of data we leave behind as we flit from link to link—the more crumbs, the better. The last thing these companies want is to encourage leisurely reading or slow, concentrated thought. It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 17 Jun 08
       
      All the more reason to educate students on social media literacy with a purpose.
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  • He couldn’t foresee the many ways that writing and reading would serve to spread information, spur fresh ideas, and expand human knowledge (if not wisdom).
  • And because they would be able to “receive a quantity of information without proper instruction,” they would “be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.”
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 17 Jun 08
       
      Nothing's different here. In fact, I might argue that it is even more important that we have "proper instruction".
  • They would be “filled with the conceit of wisdom instead of real wisdom.”
  • emotionlessness that characterizes the human figures in the film, who go about their business with an almost robotic efficiency. Their thoughts and actions feel scripted, as if they’re following the steps of an algorithm.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 17 Jun 08
       
      Is this where education/teaching is headed if it does not embrace technology for the freedom it offers learners?
Keith Hamon

Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds - Kaiser Family Foundation - 17 views

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shared by Keith Hamon on 20 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Keith Hamon on 20 Jan 10
     
    Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds is the third in a series of large-scale, nationally representative surveys by the Foundation about young people's media use. It found that the amount of time young people spend with entertainment media has risen dramatically, especially among minority youth.  Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week).  And because they spend so much of that time 'media multitasking,' they actually manage to pack a total of 10 hours and 45 minutes (10:45) worth of media content into those 7½ hours.
Michael Walker

VM402: The Allure of Multitasking Attention and Distraction in a Digital World - 5 views

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shared by Michael Walker on 17 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Michael Walker on 17 Jan 11
     
    Syllabus for Howard Rheingold's course.
Vicki Davis

ABC News: Could MySpace Be Your Kid's Social Key? - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 29 Mar 08 - Cached
  • They're very self-motivated.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 29 Mar 08
       
      Quite the opposite of what many are saying -- I agree with this.
  • This world encourages us to multitask. I think it encourages kids to be much less patient. More terse.
  • This generation spends time at home — connected. Kids have to be social. It's all part of the preteen and teen years and young adult years
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  • Because they have a combination of people they know face-to-face in the real world and people they don't, (those of the Net generation) get a lot of chances to bounce ideas and to test out things on a social network that they probably wouldn't do face-to-face.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 29 Mar 08
       
      And we need to make networks so they can bounce of ideas related to a novel or something they are learning in school too.
  • Larry Rosen, professor of psychology at California State University-Dominguez Hills, has long studied "the Net generation," the first to have grown up with the Internet, not to mention cellphones. In Me, MySpace and I: Parenting the Net Generation (Palgrave Macmillan), he helps parents understand social networks. His advice: Talk to your kids, learn the technology and don't panic. USA TODAY's Janet Kornblum spoke with the author.
  • Vicki Davis on 29 Mar 08
     
    This is an interesting article that presents some interesting commentary on students today. It is very brief but makes some excellent points.
  • Vicki Davis on 29 Mar 08
     
    Alice shared this earlier, but I went back and added annotations AND the tagging standard -- this will show up in the links and make this article rise to the top as we discuss it.
yc c

Does the Brain Like E-Books? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/...does-the-brain-like-e-books

shared by yc c on 16 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Still, people read more slowly on screen, by as much as 20-30 percent. Fifteen or 20 years ago, electronic reading also impaired comprehension compared to paper, but those differences have faded in recent studies.
    • yc c
      yc c on 16 Oct 09
       
      Gloria Mark, below, mentions the opposite
  • displays have vastly improved since then, and now with high resolution monitors reading speed is no different than reading from paper.
    • yc c
      yc c on 16 Oct 09
       
      here
  • A hyperlink brings you to information faster but is also more of a distraction.
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  • More and more, studies are showing how adept young people are at multitasking. But the extent to which they can deeply engage with the online material is a question for further research.
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