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Thomas Galvez

Technology is ruining our memory. Here's why that doesn't matter. - The Washington Post - 0 views

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shared by Thomas Galvez on 18 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Time shapes knowledge and how we work with it.
  • Important changes have emerged regarding the ideas and information available to us, and the ways we can engage with them that are worth considering
  • Digital technology allows a range of visual, audio and word based information and ideas. On a daily basis we can access podcasts, vlogs, videos, audio recordings and animations to name just a few.
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  • We are reading more than ever (three times more since the 1980s) but interactive components allow us to work with and develop information in many different ways
  • It’s common for children today to be able to create a multimodal presentation for a school project which has writing, images, video, sound, animation features and hyperlinks to websites. The days of photocopying information for a project and gluing it to cardboard are long gone
  • A key skill in our current era is the ability to draw on lots of different types of information and bring them together to work out a solution, to gain a new perspective on a situation or to develop our knowledge of something
  • If remembering and understanding are linked to deliberate action then editing some footage or composing a script for a YouTube clip needs to be well thought through. It’s not about if it was written on paper first but just that deep thought has been given to it
  • Also if the argument for turning back to books is about not being distracted by online ads or checking our social media or email accounts, then it’s important that we learn to work well in our e-society. Technology is not going away
  • Some may suggest that we are losing opportunities to learn because of our love affair with our screens. But what’s important today is understanding and managing information, and then developing new knowledge from that. Remembering that information simply isn’t important anymore
Thomas Galvez

Social Networks: What Maslow Misses - 0 views

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    How we connect and thrive through emerging technologies.
Thomas Galvez

What Do Emojis Mean? - 0 views

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shared by Thomas Galvez on 08 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Anything presented in text, whatever the type—characters, pictograms, onomatopoetic expressions—can be interpreted in some way. And court cases involving unconventional, unpronounceable type aren't rare
  • But the definitions of emojis will raise questions soon, because emojis are essentially fuzzy in definition. They're embedded in complicated social context, making them open to interpretation
  • The expressions on a person's face can't be translated perfectly in text, even if emojis include a set of varied faces. "Face-to-face, you get intonation, speech tempo, hand gestures, furrowed brows," he tells me. "We're trying to make sense of an impoverished channel of communication. We're trying to make ourselves understood." So, a wide smile in emoji form may not mean joy, but could instead mean a variety of expressions not easily interpreted by the receiver of the message
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  • As for the phatic expression of laughter, "haha," "lol," "hehe," etc. can serve as placeholders as well, regardless of whether the sender of the message is laughing in real life.
  • That's the basic idea behind how people interpret emoticons and emojis, too. "The introduction of emoticons and emojis just gives you more tools at your disposal,
  • So, the answer to the question of whether emoticons are relevant in Ulbricht's case is a resounding yes and no.
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