Group items tagged socialnetworking - Instructional & Media Services at Dickinson College

shared by Ed Webb on 16 Jul 10 - Cached

no connection between time spent on social-networking sites and academic performance
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The trouble with social media is it stunts the development of social skills. Now we learn that time spent on social media does not damage GPA, which implies it's benign. What a tragedy. And precisely the mistaken impression that social development stunting craves.
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The study in question focused only on first-year students, and traditional ones at that. (A read through of the study revealed the sample included mostly 18- and 19-year-olds and a few (3%) 20-29-year-olds).
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Such a broad generalization based on one narrowly defined study, along with the suggestion that college students should be unconcerned about how much time they spend on SNS, is, at best, naive and, at worst, irresponsible.
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Will there soon be a study determining that partying had no effect on grades, despite "how often students used them or how many they used"?
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shared by Ed Webb on 06 Apr 09 - No Cached

I believe that not only are office slackers more productive than work-only employees, but that people who work from home are more productive than the office crowd -- and for many of the same reasons
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2. It gets personal things off your mind.
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1. The subconscious mind keeps working.
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3. It builds work relationships.
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4. It converts real-time interactions into asynchronous ones.
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shared by Ed Webb on 31 Oct 09 - Cached

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