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cakeffer

The Dawn of the Postliterate Age.: EBSCOhost - 1 views

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Technology Declining Literacy

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  • cakeffer on 16 Jul 14
     
    Page 1 This article questions, "How can it be that, between 1982 and 2007, reading declined by nearly 20% for the overall U.S. population and 30% for young adults aged 18-24, or that 40 million Americans read at the lowest literacy level?... the image makers." Television, video games and YouTube to mention a few is causing this decline.¬¬ ****I believe that as new technological items come out as often as they do, it separates us from the past of pen and paper literacy to the future of something "easier". Page 2 "A recent report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that text messaging use among teenagers in Ireland was having a highly negative effect on their writing and reading skills." ****Texting employs heavy use of acronyms to replace entire words or sentences, creating a culture of brief to-the-point communications. The electronic culture essentially killed letter writing. Page 3 "While advancement in cybernetics and the decline in literary culture appear, at first glance, completely unrelated, research into cyber-telepathy has direct ramifications for the written word and its survivability." "The advent of faster and more dexterous artificial intelligence systems could further erode traditional literacy." "As originally proposed by futurist William Crossman, The written word will likely be rendered a functionally obsolete technology by 2050. This scenario exists alongside another future in which young people reject many of the devices, networks, and digital services that today's adults market to them so relentlessly." Page 4 "AI watchers predict that natural-language search will replace what some call 'keywordese' in five years. Once search evolves from an awkward word hunt-guessing at the key words that might be in the document you're looking for-to a 'conversation' with an AI entity, the next logical step is vocal conversation with our computer. Ask a question an
  • Kayla Mullis on 17 Jul 14
     
    If we send in the link for this one it cant be viewed because it was during the session you had with the library but we can add the source still so that it is on there but you would have to return to the page on the site and grab it to add to the doc. We don't have to add links per say just make sure we cite the research. I had an ebscohost page as well but instead of getting the info for it i decided to find a different link because it didnt work well with what we are trying to do.
aefreemansmith

To read or not to read - 2 views

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misinformation DGL digital literacy decline effects

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    "Americans are spending less time reading. Reading comprehension skills are eroding. These declines have serious civic, social, cultural, and economic implications"
Kayla Mullis

Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis? | UCLA - 1 views

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digital literacy negative effects technology Debate

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  • "Studies show that reading develops imagination, induction, reflection and critical thinking, as well as vocabulary," Greenfield said. "Reading for pleasure is the key to developing these skills. Students today have more visual literacy and less print literacy. Many students do not read for pleasure and have not for decades."
  • Among the studies Greenfield analyzed was a classroom study showing that students who were given access to the Internet during class and were encouraged to use it during lectures did not process what the speaker said as well as students who did not have Internet access. When students were tested after class lectures, those who did not have Internet access performed better than those who did.
  • "Wiring classrooms for Internet access does not enhance learning," Greenfield said.
    • Kayla Mullis
      Kayla Mullis on 15 Jul 14
       
      Multitasking is not always the best idea. When it comes to the internet it is so stimulating that its hard to take in any other information. You can't be on tumblr and listen to the story about what happened at the coffee shop to your friend today and be able to respond to them meaningfully.
Kayla Mullis

The 4 Negative Side Effects Of Technology - Edudemic - 2 views

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digital literacy negative effects technology Debate

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  • 3. Declining Writing Skills Due to the excessive usage of online chatting and shortcuts, the writing skills of today’s young generation have declined quite tremendously. These days, children are relying more and more on digital communication that they have totally forgot about improving their writing skills. They don’t know the spelling of different words, how to use grammar properly or how to do cursive writing.
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      Kayla Mullis on 15 Jul 14
       
      I know I am guilty of this myself. We all rely on auto correct or spell check way more then anyone should, instead of trying to correct the mistakes by learning better literacy skills. Grammar is probably one of the things most effected by technology. Everything is cut short, or words are left out, and it gets worse every day.
aefreemansmith

Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America - 3 views

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DGL misinformation digital literacy decline

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  • aefreemansmith on 16 Jul 14
     
    "For the first time in modern history, less than half of the adult population now reads literature, and these trends reflect a larger decline in other sorts of reading."
Jenna Flammini

FOCROFLOL: Is Texting Damaging Our Language Skills? | Psychology Today - 0 views

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DGL texting

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  • young people write in techspeak, using shortcuts, such as homophones, omissions, non-essential letters and initials, to quickly and efficiently compose a text message.
  • based their findings on a survey of over 500 students in middle school.  They concluded “there is evidence of a decline in grammar scores.”
  • conducted a study for her Master’s thesis in linguistics, which showed that those who texted more were less open to new vocabulary, whereas those who read traditional media were more open to expanding their vocabulary.
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  • College students who frequently text message during class have difficulty staying attentive to classroom lectures and consequently are at risk of having poor results
  • reading traditional print media exposes people to variety and creativity in language that is not found in colloquial peer-to-peer text messaging
  • “Our assumption about texting is that it encourages unconstrained language,” Lee argues, “but the study found this to be a myth.”
  • most college students believe they are capable of performing multitasking behaviors (such as texting) during their classroom learning, but research does not support that proposition.
  • Out of a study of 700 youths aged 12-17, sixty percent don’t consider electronic communications such as messaging to be writing in the formal sense; 63 percent say it has no impact on the writing they do for school, and yet 64 percent report that they inadvertently use some form of shorthand in their formal writing
g_lem803

HowStuffWorks "5 Ways Technology Has Negatively Affected Families" - 0 views

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Negative Effects Technology DGL

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  • Another study examined boys aged 6 to 9 and the relationship between video games and their declining reading skills. The boys didn't seem to have any underlying reading problems; researchers speculate that their desire to play video games just surpassed the time they devoted to reading and writing, bringing down their abilities
  • Children with unlimited gaming, computer and TV time may not get enough interpersonal face-to-face interaction needed to develop proper social skills.
  • E-mail and texts don't convey empathy, tone or subtext the way face-to-face or phone conversations do.
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  • A group of children, aged 4-6, were asked whether they'd want to watch TV or hang out with their dad. Dear old dad lost out! According to an A.C. Nielsen report, 54 percent of kids preferred to spend time with the TV.
  • In 2004, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention said childhood obesity had tripled since 1980 in the U.S.A. One of the most technologically advanced countries also has one of the highest shares of obese people in the world -- not a correlation of which to be proud.
Jenna Flammini

Does Technology Make Us Smarter or Dumber? | TIME.com - 1 views

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DGL technology

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  • make adolescent users faster, but less accurate
  • Texting
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  • scientists found that kids who sent three or more text messages a day had significantly lower scores on literacy tests than children who sent none.
  • Search engines
  • changing the way we use our memories
  • lower rates of recall of the information itself and enhanced recall instead for where to access it.
  • It’s good to know where to find the information you need—but decades of cognitive science research shows that skills like critical thinking and problem-solving can be developed only in the context of factual knowledge. In other words, you’ve got to have knowledge stored in your head, not just in your computer.
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  • those who divided their attention between email and other tasks experienced a 10-point decline in IQ.
  • Their decrease in intellectual ability was as great as if they’d missed a whole night’s sleep
  • scores on a test of general knowledge were highest among people who read newspapers, magazines and books, and lowest among those who watched a lot of TV.
  • Watching television, they noted, is “negatively associated with knowledge acquisition” — except when the TV watching involved public television, news, or documentary programs.
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