Group items tagged Decline - Oeuvre Elite

shared by Jennifer Lijewski on 16 Jan 14 - No Cached

shared by Melissa Neal on 16 Jan 14 - No Cached

s teenagers’ scores on standardized reading tests have declined or stagnated, some argue that the hours spent prowling the Internet are the enemy of reading — diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans and destroying a precious common culture that exists only through the reading of books.
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shared by lena thompson on 17 Jan 14 - No Cached

"We are a gadget happy nation, but the gadgets make us dumber, not smarter."
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As certain skills become unnecessary or obsolete thanks to technology, we adjust and adapt. Our brains, however, aren't quite as flexible.
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Internet search engines allow us to find and process information quickly, but not necessarily retain it
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As the Nicholas Carr succinctly explains in the Wired Magazine: "e ask the Internet to keep interrupting us in ever more varied ways. We willingly accept the loss of concentration and focus, the fragmentation of our attention, and the thinning of our thoughts in return for the wealth of compelling, or at least diverting, information we receive."
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As these little devices become ubiquitous and we rely on them more and more to manage our lives, what parts of our brains will go unused? Memory and processing speed naturally decline as we age, as noted on a Forbes piece published last year.
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As technology is impacting our lives, it's also affecting our brains.
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shared by Melissa Neal on 15 Jan 14 - No Cached

shared by Melissa Neal on 15 Jan 14 - No Cached

"There is a widespread belief among teachers that students' constant use of digital technology is hampering their attention spans and ability to persevere in the face of challenging tasks."
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shared by Melissa Neal on 15 Jan 14 - No Cached

Texting, Twitter contributing to students' poor grammar skills, profs say
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Little or no grammar teaching, cell phone texting, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, are all being blamed for an increasingly unacceptable number of post-secondary students who can't write
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shared by Melissa Neal on 15 Jan 14 - No Cached

digital culture may cause negative changes in the brains of users – reducing attention spans, lowering empathy
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Using self-report data, Sara Konrath and colleagues find that college students today are less empathic than previous generations
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There is evidence that multitasking leads to a lowering of performance, and it may be true that people tend to engage in more multitasking today than formerly, because they have tablets, smartphones and laptops constantly available
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