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Technology replacing personal interactions at what cost? - Cafferty File - CNN.com Blogs - 0 views

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  • "The year we stopped talking to one another." That's what USA Today dubs 2010, in light of the unprecedented use of technology.
  • We are awash in technology. It's estimated that 93% of Americans now use cell phones or wireless devices. And one-third of those people are using so-called smartphones, which means the users can browse the Web and check e-mail on their phones. According to an industry trade group, from June 2009 to June 2010, cell phone subscribers sent 1.8 trillion text messages. That was up 33% from the year before. In other words, most of us spend our days walking around with our noses buried in our cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPhones, etc.
Nicholas Rehorn

Children who read on iPads or Kindles have weaker literacy skills, charity warns | Mail... - 2 views

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  • The advance of technology means that young people who read on a screen have weaker literacy skills and fewer children now enjoy reading, experts have said.
  • The poll of 34,910 young people aged between eight and 16 across the UK found that those who read printed texts were almost twice as likely to have above-average reading skills as those who read on screens every day.
  • 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.
    • Nicholas Rehorn
      Nicholas Rehorn on 12 Aug 14
       
      Reading a physical book allows you to get information without constant annotations such as email or text popping up, you can give your full undivided attention.
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Age of Distraction: Why It's Crucial for Students to Learn to Focus | MindShift - 0 views

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  • igital classroom tools like computers, tablets and smartphones offer exciting opportunities to deepen learning through creativity, collaboration and connection, but those very devices can also be distracting to students. Similarly, parents complain that when students are required to complete homework assignments online, it’s a challenge for students to remain on task. The ubiquity of digital technology in all realms of life isn’t going away, but if students don’t learn how to concentrate and shut out distractions, research shows they’ll have a much harder time succeeding in almost every area.
  • attention is under siege
  • we have more distractions than ever before, we have to be more focused on cultivating the skills of attention,” said Daniel Goleman, a psychologist and author of Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
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  • Children I’m particularly worried about because the brain is the last organ of the body to become anatomically mature.
  • It keeps growing until the mid-20s
  • If young students don’t build up the neural circuitry that focused attention requires, they could have
  • problems controlling their emotions and being empathetic.
  • “The circuitry for paying attention is identical for the circuits for managing distressing emotion,” Goleman said. The
  • brain that governs focus and executive functioning is known as the pre-frontal cortex.
  • allows people to control themselves,
  • and to feel empathy for other people.
  • who is well educated
  • attentional circuitry needs
  • to build the mental models
  • He advocates
  • “I don’t think the enemy is digital devices,” Goleman said.
  • digital sabbath
  • kids aren’t being distracted by devices at all.
  • to focus is a secret element to success that often gets ignored.
  • whatever talent you have, you can’t apply it if you are distracted,”
  • It’s very important to amp up the focus side of the equation,” Goleman said.
  • the role digital devices play in society today
  • affect kids better they’ll never learn the attention skills they’ll need to succeed in the long term.
  • need now to teach kids concentration abilities
  • students grew up with digital devices and are much better at multitasking
  • the idea of multitasking is a myth, Goleman said. When people say they’re  “multitasking,” what they are really doing is something called “continuous partial attention,”
  • as a student switches back and forth between homework and streaming through text messages, their ability to focus on either task erodes.
  • could have significant implications for how deeply a student understands a new concept.
  • be sure
  • sustained episodes of concentration — reading the text, understanding and listening
  • children has the attentional capacities that other generations had naturally before the distractions of digital devices.
  • using the devices smartly
snnigcircles

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

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  • Although teachers see a number of advantages in young people's heavy use of digital media (especially in their ability to find information quickly and efficiently), it is the potentially harmful effects that have families, educators and policy makers worried. New York Times' Matt Richtel summarizes these concerns in an article about the studies: "There is a widespread belief among teachers that students' constant use of digital technology is hampering their attention spans and ability to persevere in the face of challenging tasks." 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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Texting, Twitter contributing to students' poor grammar skills, profs say - The Globe a... - 1 views

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  • Little or no grammar teaching, cell phone texting, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, are all being blamed for an increasingly unacceptable number of post-secondary students who can't write.
  • Punctuation errors are huge, and apostrophe errors. Students seem to have absolutely no idea what an apostrophe is for.
    • Nicholas Rehorn
      Nicholas Rehorn on 12 Aug 14
       
      Going from "1337 speak" to more professional and grammatically correct speech can be difficult if you are used to text messaging or social media sites where proper grammar isn't really expected of you.
  • Little or no grammar teaching, cell phone texting, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, are all being blamed for an increasingly unacceptable number of post-secondary students who can't write.
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  • Ontario's Waterloo University is one of the few post-secondary institutions in Canada to require the students they accept to pass an exam testing their English language skills. Almost a third of those students are failing. "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.
  • "There has been this general sense in the last two or three years that we are finding more students are struggling in terms of language proficiency," says Rummana Khan Hemani, the university's director of academic advising. 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. "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. Khan Hemani sends appeal submissions with emoticons in them back to students to be re-written "because a committee will immediately get their backs up when they see that kind of written style."
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