Mr. Reilly hopes that the two can meet — that computers can be combined with education to better engage students and can give them technical skills without compromising deep analytical thought.
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Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains | Magazine - 1 views
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Need to find balance
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The best of both worlds
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Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Students have always faced distractions and time-wasters. But computers and cellphones, and the constant stream of stimuli they offer, pose a profound new challenge to focusing and learning.
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“Their brains are rewarded not for staying on task but for jumping to the next thing,”
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Unchecked use of digital devices, he says, can create a culture in which students are addicted to the virtual world and lost in it.
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How do we provide the balance to harness the power of Tech?
6 Top Tech Trends on the Horizon for Higher Education - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of... - 0 views
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notes that mobile devices have been listed before, but it says that resistance by many schools continues to slow the full integration of mobile devices into higher education.
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Learning analytics
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Challenges to adoption include incorporating information coming from a variety of sources and in different formats and concerns about privacy and profiling.
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The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete - 0 views
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Learning to use a "computer" of this scale may be challenging. But the opportunity is great: The new availability of huge amounts of data, along with the statistical tools to crunch these numbers, offers a whole new way of understanding the world
Professors With Personal Tweets Get High Credibility Marks - Wired Campus - The Chronic... - 0 views
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, but there are certain topics she’ll never discuss, such as student or faculty behavior.
Pecha Kucha: Get to the PowerPoint in 20 Slides Then Sit the Hell Down - 0 views
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a simple set of rules to presentations: exactly 20 slides displayed for 20 seconds each. That's it. Say what you need to say in six minutes and 40 seconds of exquisitely matched words and images and then sit the hell down.
Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners: Digital Differentiation - 1 views
Why goal setting doesn't work | Psychology Today - 0 views
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create workplaces and schools that foster interest in and a passion for work.
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