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Silvia SP

Using Mobile Learning Resources in Foreign Language Instruction (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDU... - 4 views

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mobile learning languages

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Kev Harland

What is the Meaning of The Medium is the Message? - 0 views

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  • Similarly, the message of a newscast are not the news stories themselves, but a change in the public attitude towards crime, or the creation of a climate of fear.
  • a medium is "any extension of ourselves." Classically, he suggests that a hammer extends our arm and that the wheel extends our legs and feet.
  • Similarly, the medium of language extends our thoughts from within our mind out to others
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  • growing medium, like the fertile potting soil into which a seed is planted, or the agar in a Petri dish
  • We can know the nature and characteristics of anything we conceive or create (medium) by virtue of the changes - often unnoticed and non-obvious changes - that they effect (message.)
Kev Harland

Of mind and media: EBSCOhost - 1 views

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forms of representation H800

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  • different forms of representation have what philosophers call different fields of reference.
  • even when different symbolic forms of representation address the same field of reference, conveying (what appears to be) the same information
  • strongly colored by the knowledge structures ("schemata") we already possess
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  • much may depend on the richness and organization of the knowledge schemata one brings to bear on the incoming information
  • affect meanings is a matter of balance between them and the richness of one's schemata
  • the convergence of findings supports the conclusion that different symbolic forms of representation require different symbolic capacities
  • basic symbolic forms of representation--language, number, spatial relations, movement, pitch
  • The seven intelligences he describes (linguistic, musical, logical/mathematical, spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, intrapersonal, and interpersonal)
  • different symbolic forms of representation are processed by different sets of mental skills and capacities
  • hildren do not expend much mental effort on a televised story, even when it is quite poetic and requires effort
  • Thus they learn far less from it than from an equivalent story in print.
  • Where or when television is perceived as a serious medium
  • They also seem to be gradually changing the meaning of "knowledge," from something that is possessed to something to which we have access
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