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Children who read on iPads or Kindles have weaker literacy skills, charity warns | Mail... - 1 views

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  • Jonathan Douglas, the director of the National Literacy Trust, said: 'While we welcome the positive impact which technology has on bringing further reading opportunities to young people, it's crucial that reading in print is not cast aside.
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Is Text Messaging Destroying the English Language? A Reflective Essay on Texting and En... - 0 views

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  • Is text messaging destroying the English language? Numerous protectors of the integrity of English have certainly suspected so, and such concerns are raised constantly in the media.
    • amkodya
      amkodya on 15 Jul 14
       
      Supporters of the integrity of English are claiming texting is destroying the language.
  • There is an increasing concern that the birth of a heavily abbreviated text messaging language could bring about severe problems for the English language in the near future. One could argue that such fears are founded upon mere parochialism among the middle class, yet the evidence to suggest that text language is having a detrimental impact upon English is highly compelling. Journalists across the globe have condemned the casual usage of text language in formal mediums such as emails, yet the world only seems to have recently started to take notice. Could it be that the prevalence of text language is leading not only to poor spelling but also to the death of the English language as we know it?
    • amkodya
      amkodya on 15 Jul 14
       
      Casual text language is moving to more formal platforms such as e-mail. The effects of text language include poor spelling and dwindling of the English language. There is loss in translation from English language to text language.
  • It is a recognized fact, of course, that text language can be a quick and efficient method of communicating with one another in an informal environment. Abbreviations such as ‘tbh’ instead of ‘to be honest or ‘u’ instead of ‘you’ are certainly practical ones in the hectic lifestyles of the denizens of the twenty-first century. There simply isn't the time to write messages in full, many will argue, yet it is feared that these lazy spelling forms are gradually penetrating the official English language.
    • amkodya
      amkodya on 15 Jul 14
       
      The fast nature of text messaging is causing increased abbreviations.Text language is efficient but not formal. Hectic schedules mean less time spent on proper grammar and spelling. Abbreviations allow people to be lazy and actually turning into the norm for the English language.
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  • numerous employers have complained of the sheer volume of job applications they receive written in text language [1]. In particular they note that many applicants have a tendency to speak informally and use text message abbreviations, giving the impression that they are corresponding with an old friend rather than a potential employer. Such prospective applicants seem therefore poorly educated, lazy, and unprofessional. Needless to say, in most cases such applications are thrown in the bin and never thought of again.
    • amkodya
      amkodya on 15 Jul 14
       
      People who talk in text abbreviations are viewed as poorly educated, lazy and unprofessional. Texting language is not always appropriate. It is informal and it is as if corresponding with friend rather than a professional peer. Future employers do not hire those who are informal and use the lazy text language.
  • this casual, lazy usage of text language outside of the world of mobile phones is becoming something of a contagious disease. Phrases such as ‘lol’ and ‘k’ (meaning ‘laugh out loud’ and ‘okay’ respectively) are being used increasingly in speech and in email correspondence. The result is that many employees and prospective employees appear highly unprofessional in the work place, particularly when corresponding with their superiors.
    • amkodya
      amkodya on 15 Jul 14
       
      Text language is being used in the work place and makes businesses look unprofessional. Text language should not be used when conversing with a superior.
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9 Ways Technology Affects Mental Health | Do Something - 0 views

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  • 1. Sleep. Using a laptop, cell phone, or iPad late at night can seriously mess with your sleep patterns and habits, potentially leaving you with a sleep disorder. Late night use is also associated with stress and depressive symptoms.
  • 2. Depression. A Swedish study found that participants who felt the need to have their cell phones constantly accessible were more likely to report depressive mental health symptoms. 
  • 3. Addiction. Several studies have actually suggested that the brains of technology abusers develop a certain pattern of change over time. Studies also suggest that the amount of times technology abusers check their gadgets are just enough to trigger the addiction-oriented parts of our brains. 
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  • 4. 24/7 Stress. When we come home from school or work and immediately hop on the Internet or turn on the iPad, our brains don’t get the chance to de-stress and unwind from the day’s activities, so our brains get stuck in stress mode 24/7. 
  • 5. FOMO aka “Fear Of Missing Out.”  It’s a real thing now. The popularity of social media and sharing everything has led to this new sensation where everyone from middle school-ers to working adults feel the pressure to attend every event and share every experience. It’s the “is everybody having fun without me?” disease.
  • 6. Isolation.  Related to FOMO, excessive technology use can lead to feelings of isolation or the eventual isolation of a person due to so much time spent with technology as opposed to making real connections aka human friends.
  • 7. Incivility. Research has shown that with the ascent of Internet and technology use, rudeness and incivility on social media sites has also increased. This is bad, as being rude to someone is wrong on its own, but it can also lead to Internet bullying. 
  • 8. Insecurity. Kind of like FOMO, social media, and constant access to it through our phones, tablets and laptops means we are constantly plugged into what everyone is doing. All the time. So we are constantly comparing ourselves to everyone else. All the time. But what we are seeing is everyone’s glamour shots and our average moments. Not exactly a fair comparison, huh? 
  • 9. Anxiety. Social media on our gadgets can give us anxiety about everything from FOMO to fear that our life is not “pinteresting” enough. Literally. Surveys have found that women often have anxiety that they are not crafty, creative or cute enough after using pinterest. Social media can also cause anxiety such as fear of not being successful enough or smart enough with use of sites like Facebook and Twitter. 
Robert Linsenbach

Texting, Twitter contributing to students' poor grammar skills, profs say - The Globe a... - 0 views

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  • Cellphone texting and social networking on Internet sites are degrading writing skills, say even experts in the field. "I think it has," says Joel Postman, author of "SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate," who has taught Fortune 500 companies how to use social networking. The Internet norm of ignoring punctuation and capitalization as well as using emoticons may be acceptable in an e-mail to friends and family, but it can have a deadly effect on one's career if used at work. "It would say to me ... 'well, this person doesn't think very clearly, and they're not very good at analyzing complex subjects, and they're not very good at expressing themselves, or at worse, they can't spell, they can't punctuate,' " he says.
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      amkodya on 15 Jul 14
       
      Texting and social networking have a degrading effect on writing and literacy skills. Punctuation and capitalization is ignored. Emoticons, that can be acceptable in informal online communication, are being used more frequently offline and in professional settings.
  • "Thirty per cent of students who are admitted are not able to pass at a minimum level," says Ann Barrett, managing director of the English language proficiency exam at Waterloo University. "We would certainly like it to be a lot lower." Barrett says the failure rate has jumped five percentage points in the past few years, up to 30 per cent from 25 per cent.
    • amkodya
      amkodya on 15 Jul 14
       
      Failure rate is increasing in the past few years from 25% to 30%.
  • Emoticons, truncated and butchered words such as 'cuz,' are just some of the writing horrors being handed in, say professors and administrators at Simon Fraser
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  • "Little happy faces ... or a sad face ... little abbreviations," show up even in letters of academic appeal, says Khan Hemani. "Instead of 'because', it's 'cuz'. That's one I see fairly frequently," she says, and these are new in the past five years.
  • Punctuation errors are huge, and apostrophe errors. Students seem to have absolutely no idea what an apostrophe is for. None. Absolutely none."
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    Cellphone texting and social networking writing skills
  • Robert Linsenbach on 14 Jul 14
     
    Cellphone texting and social networking on Internet sites are degrading writing skills, say even experts in the field. "I think it has," says Joel Postman, author of "SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate," who has taught Fortune 500 companies how to use social networking. The Internet norm of ignoring punctuation and capitalization as well as using emoticons may be acceptable in an e-mail to friends and family, but it can have a deadly effect on one's career if used at work. "It would say to me ... 'well, this person doesn't think very clearly, and they're not very good at analyzing complex subjects, and they're not very good at expressing themselves, or at worse, they can't spell, they can't punctuate,' " he says.
Robert Linsenbach

Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis? | UCLA - 0 views

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  • "Studies show that reading develops imagination, induction, reflection and critical thinking, as well as vocabulary," Greenfield said. "Reading for pleasure is the key to developing these skills. Students today have more visual literacy and less print literacy. Many students do not read for pleasure and have not for decades."
  • Another study Greenfield analyzed found that college students who watched "CNN Headline News" with just the news anchor on screen and without the "news crawl" across the bottom of the screen remembered significantly more facts from the televised broadcast than those who watched it with the distraction of the crawling text and with additional stock market and weather information on the screen.   These and other studies show that multi-tasking "prevents people from getting a deeper understanding of information," Greenfield said.
  • Visual intelligence has been rising globally for 50 years, Greenfield said. In 1942, people's visual performance, as measured by a visual intelligence test known as Raven's Progressive Matrices, went steadily down with age and declined substantially from age 25 to 65. By 1992, there was a much less significant age-related disparity in visual intelligence, Greenfield said.   "In a 1992 study, visual IQ stayed almost flat from age 25 to 65," she said.   Greenfield believes much of this change is related to our increased use of technology, as well as other factors, including increased levels of formal education, improved nutrition, smaller families and increased societal complexity.
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  • As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined
  • Reading for pleasure, which has declined among young people in recent decades, enhances thinking and engages the imagination in a way that visual media such as video games and television do not, Greenfield said.
  • vnarvaezfullsail on 14 Jul 14
     
    ""Studies show that reading develops imagination, induction, reflection and critical thinking, as well as vocabulary," Greenfield said. "Reading for pleasure is the key to developing these skills. Students today have more visual literacy and less print literacy. Many students do not read for pleasure and have not for decades.""
  • Robert Linsenbach on 14 Jul 14
     
    Studies show that reading develops imagination, induction, reflection and critical thinking, as well as vocabulary," Greenfield said. "Reading for pleasure is the key to developing these skills. Students today have more visual literacy and less print literacy. Many students do not read for pleasure and have not for decades." These and other studies show that multi-tasking "prevents people from getting a deeper understanding of information," Greenfield said.
Robert Linsenbach

Impact of the Internet on Critical Reading and Writing Skills - Reading Horizons - 0 views

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  • the internet is making us all a little more A.D.D.
  • Experts describe this habit of darting from page to page as "associative" thinking. They have especially noticed this habit in younger children, whom are comparably less focused on studying, reading, and writing then the age group was when measured in the past. This is damaging to reading ability because it decreases our ability to comprehend what we read.
  • Another way researchers believe the internet has impacted our critical thinking abilities is that we now use less reliable sources to learn about new ideas. We often accept any article as fact. They found that students children’s reading abilities now do less research before answering a question. They also found that they trusted their friends for answers more than adults. They attributed this habit being a result of internet exposure, but it could simply be that children are more trusting and less skeptical.
  • Robert Linsenbach on 14 Jul 14
     
    Experts describe this habit of darting from page to page as "associative" thinking. They have especially noticed this habit in younger children, whom are comparably less focused on studying, reading, and writing then the age group was when measured in the past. This is damaging to reading ability because it decreases our ability to comprehend what we read.
Robert Linsenbach

Texting, TV and Tech Trashing Children's Attention Spans | Ellen Galinsky - 0 views

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  • Likewise, in the Pew online survey, which polled 2,462 middle and high school teachers, 87% report that these technologies are creating "an easily distracted generation with short attention spans," and 64% say that digital technologies "do more to distract students than to help them academically."
  • Robert Linsenbach on 14 Jul 14
     
    Nearly three quarters of the 685 public and private K-12 teachers surveyed in the Common Sense Media online poll believe that students use of entertainment media (including TV, video games, texting and social networking) "has hurt student's attention spans a lot or somewhat." Likewise, in the Pew online survey, which polled 2,462 middle and high school teachers, 87% report that these technologies are creating "an easily distracted generation with short attention spans," and 64% say that digital technologies "do more to distract students than to help them academically."
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The 4 Negative Side Effects Of Technology - Edudemic - 0 views

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  • Declining Writing Skills Due to the excessive usage of online chatting and shortcuts, the writing skills of today’s young generation have declined quite tremendously. These days, children are relying more and more on digital communication that they have totally forgot about improving their writing skills. They don’t know the spelling of different words, how to use grammar properly or how to do cursive writing.
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    Declining Writing Skills
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  • This study attempts to establish whether changes in digital literacy, through a period of five years, are age-dependent or the result of experience with technology. The study is based on empirical findings from two independent studies of Eshet-Alkalai & Amichai-Hamburger (2004), which investigated digital literacy skills among different age groups, and of Eshet-Alkalai and Chajut (2009), which investigated changes over time in these digital literacy skills among the same participants five years later. In order to distinguish between the age-related and the experience-related factors, the present study reports on findings from control groups of a similar age and demographic background, which were tested with tasks similar to Eshet-Alkalai & Chajut (2009). Results show two major patterns of change over time: (1) closing the gap between younger and older participants in tasks that emphasize experience and technical control (photo-visual and branching tasks); (2) widening the gap between younger and older participants in tasks that emphasize creativity and critical thinking (reproduction and information tasks). Based on the results from the control groups, we suggest that experience with technology, and not age-dependent cognitive development, accounts for the observed life-long changes in digital literacy skills. Results, especially the sharp decrease in information skills, suggest that the ability to find information or use digital environments does not guarantee an educated or smart use of digital environments. (Contains 1 figure.)
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    Sharp decrease in information skills.
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Study Says Older Adults Less Negative About PersonalComputers: EBSCOhost - 0 views

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    "TECH TALK Dateline: MUNCIE, IND. In a 10-year span from 1989 to 1999, older adults grew less uneasy using personal computers but were still wary of social changes caused by technology, a Ball State University study reports. A survey of 94 people 60 years and older in 1999 found 39.4 percent said they would never learn how to use a personal computer as compared to 66.3 percent in 1989. The study, compiled by Ball State sociology professors Dr. Ione DeOllos and Dr. David Morris, updates a previous report by Morris done in the late 1980s when personal computers were relatively new in the average American home and business. The updated study is expected to be published in the Journal of Educational Technology Systems. "In 1989 the personal computer was not nearly as widespread, less understood and more of a mystery to older adults," DeOllos says. "These people had not grown up with the computer revolution and were less likely to own or use a computer. "The 1999 response suggests ambivalence in attitudes which may simply be predicated by more exposure, contact and experience," she added. When asked if some people can't be taught computer skills, agreement dropped from 62.2 percent in 1989 to 42.4 percent in 1999. "This reflects attitudes toward other people and may simply be indicative of real-life experiences such as community learning programs," DeOllos notes. When it comes to the social significance of computers, however, older adults believe that computer technology is damaging personal relationships. In 1989, 26.6 percent of the respondents agreed that computers isolate people by preventing normal social contact. In 1999, 50.6 percent agreed with the statement. "While computers may facilitate some forms of social contact, it appears that respondents are concerned that close, person-to-person, face-to-face relationships are suffering," DeOllos said. ~~~~~~~~ By Ronald Roach"
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