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emily15rowland

Children who read on iPads or Kindles have weaker literacy skills, charity warns | Dail... - 0 views

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    This article states how reading on electronic devices negatively affects their reading levels and causes a decline in literacy skills.
bmartin89

Are television and audio hurting or helping literacy? | The SEEDS Network - 0 views

  • Does the amount of TV viewing affect literacy and learning?  The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends a limit of 10 hours a week, and no TV for children under age 2.  Mr. Trelease states that research findings show that school-age children, who watched up to 10 hours a week of TV showed no detrimental effects on learning.  BUT, for children who watched more than that – scores began to decline (and the average student today watches three times that amount). 
emily15rowland

The advent of technology has negatively impacted literacy levels in our youth : Kaieteu... - 1 views

  • many of them are in no way – even remotely in some cases – equally skillful/competent in basic reading/comprehension; the world of literature seems completely lost and a novelty to many.
  • They struggle to read a sentence, cannot pronounce very simple words, so that the task of reading becomes a drudge, a painful and un-pleasurable activity.
  • In fact, the effect of their inventions/devices has had some negative influences on our young people.
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    This one states the loss of 'basic reading/comprehension' due to the negative influence of 'inventions/devices'.
lluke1

Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis? | UCLA - 0 views

  • "By using more visual media, students will process information better," she said. "However, most visual media are real-time media that do not allow time for reflection, analysis or imagination — those do not get developed by real-time media such as television or video games. Technology is not a panacea in education, because of the skills that are being lost.
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    this article creates a strong argument against technology being beneficial for literacy skills as it shows from two professors that technology actually created a decline in being able to comprehend what we learn since we have no time to actually process it.
bmartin89

Texting, TV and Tech Trashing Children's Attention Spans | Ellen Galinsky - 0 views

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    This article doesn't specifically say digital literacy but it does say the technology is negatively affecting children's minds.
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    "Nearly three quarters of the 685 public and private K-12 teachers surveyed in the Common Sense Media online poll believe that students use of entertainment media (including TV, video games, texting and social networking) "has hurt student's attention spans a lot or somewhat." Likewise, in the Pew online survey, which polled 2,462 middle and high school teachers, 87% report that these technologies are creating "an easily distracted generation with short attention spans," and 64% say that digital technologies "do more to distract students than to help them academically.""
emily15rowland

Texting, Twitter contributing to students' poor grammar skills, profs say - The Globe a... - 0 views

  • Cellphone texting and social networking on Internet sites are degrading writing skills, say even experts in the field.
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    The sentence I highlighted above is the main thing I got out of this article. The whole article is worth reading though.
emily15rowland

Computer use has 'persistent negative impact' on child's maths, reading test scores - 0 views

  • e Sunday Telegraph reports a survey of more than half a million children reveals technology is counter-productive in improving student achievement.
  • It found that introducing children to computers from 10 years of age could have a detrimental effect and was associated with "modest but statistically significant and persistent negative impacts on student maths and reading test scores".
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    This touches briefly on computers negatively affecting student's performance in math and reading.
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