Have Technology and Multitasking Rewired How Students Learn? - 2 views

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  #1 Joseph Fithian on 05 Mar 12

   

  This is the article Dr. Fosen sent to all of us. The article is by cognitive science, the science of the mind and how it works. Here it is applied to how the mind works in relation to learning and how we learn language.. Why this is important is because from a teaching standpoint, the area I am going into, I want to know best how one learns a language and how has or is it changing. On the first page of the article there are several pictures; all portray a figure with a large head except one, the thinker. He seems to have a solid cap on. To the illusion that of a shield. The brain however, is not shielded and we attain wisdom and knowledge from many sources. Then there is the center character with a television head. This is the area, IT, which interests me, with the question "If we are not shielded by the many things we take into our head daily, then what is the effect does the many devices students use in school or out of school have on their ability to learn. There is a statement Willingham make. He describe how even those in their twenties are considers by teenagers to lacking in the area of new media technology. As I alluded to in RR6 the greatest challenge is for the teachers of this new generation of students. We see it is classes all the time were, as the article discusses, students are multitasking between the instruction and the devices they bring to class. Some would argue that these device are a hindrance and some instructors are telling students they are required to bring them. It would even seem right to say there is a limit to what is acceptable and a mobile phone is not allowed. then the technology changed and now we can do more on a mobile phone the just call. I like the idea that the instructor needs to learn from the students by monitoring how well their students do. That seem like a good idea but that is a lot for the instructor to do. I would say it is.... not sure. But there is a place and best time for such devices.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is the article Dr. Fosen sent to all of us. The article is by cognitive science, the science of the mind and how it works. Here it is applied to how the mind works in relation to learning and how we learn language.. Why this is important is because from a teaching standpoint, the area I am going into, I want to know best how one learns a language and how has or is it changing. On the first page of the article there are several pictures; all portray a figure with a large head except one, the thinker. He seems to have a solid cap on. To the illusion that of a shield. The brain however, is not shielded and we attain wisdom and knowledge from many sources. Then there is the center character with a television head. This is the area, IT, which interests me, with the question "If we are not shielded by the many things we take into our head daily, then what is the effect does the many devices students use in school or out of school have on their ability to learn. There is a statement Willingham make. He describe how even those in their twenties are considers by teenagers to lacking in the area of new media technology. As I alluded to in RR6 the greatest challenge is for the teachers of this new generation of students. We see it is classes all the time were, as the article discusses, students are multitasking between the instruction and the devices they bring to class. Some would argue that these device are a hindrance and some instructors are telling students they are required to bring them. It would even seem right to say there is a limit to what is acceptable and a mobile phone is not allowed. then the technology changed and now we can do more on a mobile phone the just call. I like the idea that the instructor needs to learn from the students by monitoring how well their students do. That seem like a good idea but that is a lot for the instructor to do. I would say it is.... not sure. But there is a place and best time for such devices.</div>

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