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Marie Mitchell

3D Printer Project Starters | Invent To Learn - 0 views

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    3D printer project ideas
Marie Mitchell

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George Lewis

The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens - Scientific ... - 0 views

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  • In contrast, most screens, e-readers, smartphones and tablets interfere with intuitive navigation of a text and inhibit people from mapping the journey in their minds. A reader of digital text might scroll through a seamless stream of words, tap forward one page at a time or use the search function to immediately locate a particular phrase—but it is difficult to see any one passage in the context of the entire text.
  • Instead of hiking the trail yourself, the trees, rocks and moss move past you in flashes with no trace of what came before and no way to see what lies ahead.
  • In most cases, paper books have more obvious topography than onscreen text. An open paperback presents a reader with two clearly defined domains—the left and right pages—and a total of eight corners with which to orient oneself. A reader can focus on a single page of a paper book without losing sight of the whole text: one can see where the book begins and ends and where one page is in relation to those borders.
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  • "The implicit feel of where you are in a physical book turns out to be more important than we realized,"
  • The Myth of the Paperless Office.
  • Proust and the Squid
  • I don't think e-book manufacturers have thought enough about how you might visualize where you are in a book."
  • At least a few studies suggest that by limiting the way people navigate texts, screens impair comprehension.
  • Because of their easy navigability, paper books and documents may be better suited to absorption in a text
  • surveys indicate that screens and e-readers interfere with two other important aspects of navigating texts: serendipity and a sense of control.
  • people consistently say that when they really want to dive into a text, they read it on paper.
  • nearly 80 percent of 687 surveyed students preferred to read text on paper as opposed to on a screen in order to "understand it with clarity".
  • Surveys and consumer reports also suggest that the sensory experiences typically associated with reading—especially tactile experiences—matter to people more than one might assume.
  • he text that appears on a screen is not part of the device's hardware—it is an ephemeral image.
  • Some experiments, however, suggest that researchers should look not just at immediate reading comprehension, but also at long-term memory.
  • Wästlund thinks that scrolling—which requires a reader to consciously focus on both the text and how they are moving it—drains more mental resources than turning or clicking a page, which are simpler and more automatic gestures. A 2004 study conducted at the University of Central Florida reached similar conclusions.
  • in addition to screens possibly taxing people's attention more than paper, people do not always bring as much mental effort to screens in the first place. Subconsciously, many people may think of reading on a computer or tablet as a less serious affair than reading on paper.
  • Perhaps, then, any discrepancies in reading comprehension between paper and screens will shrink as people's attitudes continue to change.
  • Jaejeung Kim of KAIST Institute of Information Technology Convergence in South Korea and his colleagues have designed an innovative and unreleased interface that makes iBooks seem primitive.
George Lewis

12 Blocks Art Exibition Challenge | ScratchEd - 0 views

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    "12 Blocks Art Exibition is a Studio"
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