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Martin Leicht

Is Social Media Disconnecting Us From the Big Picture? - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Social media is my portal into the rest of the world
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 05 Dec 16
       
      My part of the world? My portal of the world. It's play on "my corner of the world." Well it is interesting to think about as we shape our own portals, yet possibly we are not realizing it.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 05 Dec 16
       
      My part of the world? My portal of the world. It's play on "my corner of the world." Well it is interesting to think about as we shape our own portals, yet possibly we are not realizing it.
  • Each time I liked an article, or clicked on a link, or hid another, the algorithms that curate my streams took notice and showed me only what they thought I wanted to see.
  • I’m not blaming the algorithms
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  • They did exactly what I told them to do, blocking out racist, misogynist and anti-immigrant comments, hiding anyone who didn’t support Black Lives Matter, all with such deftness
  • I knew about Eli Pariser’s theory on filter bubbles, or the idea that online personalization distorts the type of information we see, and even so, I still chose to let algorithms shape how I perceive the world. Everything I could want to see is available at my fingertips, and yet I didn’t look.
  • Zuckerberg’s idealism is belied by his desire to duck responsibility for mediating the content of his site
  • Most social media
  • curated by software built to manage the high influx of information flowing into it
  • video-sharing app Vine was the first place I got a glimpse of cultures beyond my own
  • Vine links could be shared independent of the network, and people did so with abandon, meaning that Vines appeared scattershot around the web, defying the sorting mechanism of streams and feeds
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 05 Dec 16
       
      Vine's content did not necessarily need to go back to a central mechanism for oversight, like FaceBook & Twitter.
  • At Vine’s peak, it had more than 200 million monthly users who watched videos billions of times, and it excelled at showing these sorts of commonalities: that, say, black kids in New Orleans lived and looked a lot like white kids in Florida.
  • Snapchat offered its own version of cultural exchange.
  • People submitted short video diaries about life in their cities, which the company compiled into a single video, viewable by anyone using the app
  • But the company is now prioritizing “live stories,” which feature more mainstream events like the Super Bowl and music festivals
  • future of Tumblr, the blogging platform whose endless warren of rabbit holes about gender theory, critical feminist thought and identity politics is unlike any other on the internet, is the most uncertain
  • User-generated content, by and large, is not lucrative at a scale that satisfies investors, and as a result, most social-media companies are changing direction toward other revenue streams
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 05 Dec 16
       
      User generated content by itself is less marketable. What exactly do they mean? Total user generated content without any "filters" or control is not a viable product?
  • Semiprivate messaging applications
  • have grown in popularity as people move away from public arenas for conversation, a shift caused in part by spikes in unchecked harassment on major social networks
  • What happens when we would rather look inward
  • We are more interested in locating alien species than understanding the humanity among the species we already live with
  • Social media seemed to promise a way to better connect with people; instead it seems to have made it easier to tune out the people we don’t agree with
Martin Leicht

It's 'digital heroin': How screens turn kids into psychotic junkies | New York Post - 0 views

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shared by Martin Leicht on 07 Sep 16 - No Cached
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 07 Sep 16
       
      Signs/signals being sent to the parent. "It's educational" is a reasonable excuse, yet does it trump parenting technique/skill?
  • As his behavior continued to deteriorate, she tried to take the game away but John threw temper tantrums. His outbursts were so severe that she gave in, still rationalizing to herself over and over again that “it’s educational.”
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 07 Sep 16
       
      Is too much of any one thing, e.g., baseball, food, study, computers, etc., a good idea?
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  • Many parents intuitively understand that ubiquitous glowing screens are having a negative effect on kids. We see the aggressive temper tantrums when the devices are taken away and the wandering attention spans when children are not perpetually stimulated by their hyper-arousing devices.
  • Recent brain imaging research is showing that they affect the brain’s frontal cortex — which controls executive functioning, including impulse control — in exactly the same way that cocaine does. Technology is so hyper-arousing that it raises dopamine levels — the feel-good neurotransmitter most involved in the addiction dynamic — as much as sex.
  • “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” to be especially true when it comes to tech addiction.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 07 Sep 16
       
      When do we as parents act? Or is it more a partnership going forward? Yes, we (schools) asked students to use these devices. And we must do are bit to help students manage/cope. At the same time, parents need to be aware too. I know we all want to be liked as parents. In today's modern family, life is complex. Yet, I come to the conclusion that I am not my son's friend. There's going to be a lot of actions/directives he will not like. And yes, I will need to do a lot of work to get us through it, yet isn't that my job as a parent to deal with the changes as they come in order to guide him toward adulthood?
  • According to a 2013 Policy Statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics, 8- to 10 year-olds spend 8 hours a day with various digital media while teenagers spend 11 hours in front of screens. One in three kids are using tablets or smartphones before they can talk
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 07 Sep 16
       
      1 in 3 before they can talk are using tablets? Okay, this is an interesting statement. Is it supervised use? How long? I would ask the question, why? We as parents make a lot of interesting choices as parents and we all need to stop and reflect on those choices often. If it is before they can talk, then it is definitely not the school asking/requiring the device.
  • Once a person crosses over the line into full-blown addiction — drug, digital or otherwise — they need to detox before any other kind of therapy can have any chance of being effective.
  • So how do we keep our children from crossing this line? It’s not easy.
  • That means Lego instead of Minecraft; books instead of iPads; nature and sports instead of TV
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 07 Sep 16
       
      Great strategy, active parenting. I would suggest, cooking, surfing, and any activity involving ones hands. Of course, do parents have time for this?
  • When I speak to my 9-year-old twin boys, I have honest conversations with them about why we don’t want them having tablets or playing video games.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 07 Sep 16
       
      I like the "conversations" point. Not one, many conversations.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 07 Sep 16
       
      Another great strategy. I would add, the conversation is on going. The author references the distracted parent syndrome above, that one is key!
  • Developmental psychologists understand that children’s healthy development involves social interaction, creative imaginative play and an engagement with the real, natural world.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 07 Sep 16
       
      Moderation, no? Does not the standby wisdom that everything in moderation apply here too?
  • Thus the solution is often to help kids to connect to meaningful real-life experiences and flesh-and-blood relationships. The engaged child tethered to creative activities and connected to his or her family is less likely to escape into the digital fantasy world.
  • Brian C. Smith on 27 Sep 16
     
    Yeah, this is why the Reggio Emilia Approach and maker-centered learning is excellent. The blending of the digital and physical world to learn nearly anything on any topic and beyond. Kids might spend more time with devices in activities stemming from maker-centered learning, but it isn't all on the device and it provides alternative ways of knowing, understanding, and doing. We, the adults, are ultimately responsible for creating the conditions for this to be so. Papert has taught us this decades ago. I don't know why we don't study his work among the others that have known this for a very long time. Isn't it time to do so with the technology group?
Martin Leicht

A lawyer rewrote Instagram's terms of service for kids. Now you can understand all of t... - 1 views

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  • Martin Leicht on 05 May 17
     
    "see page 10"
  • Brian C. Smith on 10 May 17
     
    Does this fit the "Modern Learning" we are after? I appreciate the article and it provides a resource for discussion with kids, but I think it's more of a digital literacy item. I know, DL is a part of modern learning, but I'd like to see this space grow beyond just tech-focused items and push thinking about learning and teaching. On second thought... I have an alert for this group so I receive it in my email. Who's reading Diigo anymore anyway?
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