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Jenny Reuter

Causes Relaunches As A Social Network For Social Good Action, Not Shallow Clicktivism |... - 0 views

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shared by Jenny Reuter on 03 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Jenny Reuter on 03 Oct 13
     
    Social media and social activism
Garron Hillaire

BBC News - How good software makes us stupid - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11263559

brain learning software education google neuroscience

shared by Garron Hillaire on 13 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • "No problem - let me just enter that into my sat-nav…"
  • unless drivers pass a formidable test - called "The Knowledge" - they are not allowed to head out onto the roads in one of the iconic vehicles
  • "The particular part of our brain that stores mental images of space is actually quite enlarged in London cab drivers," explained Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
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  • The key to making us concentrate, Mr Carr suggests, is perhaps to make tasks difficult - a theory which flies in the face of software designers the world over who constantly strive to make their programs easier to use than the competition.
  • Mr Carr says that this simple experiment could suggest that as computer software becomes easier to use, making complicated tasks easier, we risk losing the ability to properly learn something - in effect "short-circuiting" the brain
  • Garron Hillaire on 13 Sep 10
     
    An argument that Good Software design is bad for learning
anonymous

The Internet, your Brain, and Schools - 0 views

larrycuban.wordpress.com/...nternet-your-brain-and-schools

technology education larry cuban shallows

shared by anonymous on 13 Sep 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 13 Sep 10
     
    Not a new article but one to provide a bit of balance to techie fervor. Larry Cuban's articles and books keep popping up in syllabi so consequently I discovered his blog.
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