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Tony Phillips

Media literacy and the challenge of new information and communication technologies - 1 views

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learning knowledge radical break past traditions communication information environment

shared by Tony Phillips on 12 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Tony Phillips on 12 Mar 14
     
    This is a report written by Sonia Livingstone and based on research that calls into question whether "the literacies required for today's communication and information environment an extension of, or a radical break with, past traditions of knowledge and learning?"
Ronald Henry

Social networking and internet.... - 15 views

I definitely agree, it's always harder for me to type a paper. I have to go through and retype almost every sentence because I am abbreviating everything. I often missed some and at my last school ...

started by Jana Zills on 12 Mar 14 7 follow-ups, last by Ronald Henry on 14 Mar 14
moriahlynn

Impact of the Internet on Critical Reading and Writing Skills - 0 views

www.readinghorizons.com/...eading-and-Writing-Skills.aspx

shared by moriahlynn on 13 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Researchers have conducted studies which they believe prove the internet has ‘rewired’ the way our brains absorb information. When you are searching the internet how long do you think you spend on a single page? (Hopefully you’re still on this page at this point!) Probably not very long. The internet offers so many gateways to other pages, that it has made it difficult for us to focus on one piece of information at a time. In other words: the internet is making us all a little more A.D.D.
  • "An adult's IQ can be influenced much either way by reading anything, and I would guess that smart people will use the Internet for smart things and stupid people will use it for stupid things in the same way that smart people read literature and stupid people read crap fiction.” -Sandra Kelly, 3M Corp.'s Market Research Manager
  • moriahlynn on 13 Mar 14
     
    I definitely like the statement that says "...the internet has 'rewired' the way our brains absorb information."
Jana Zills

Technology make us smarter or dumber - 1 views

ideas.time.com/...technology-to-make-you-smarter

shared by Jana Zills on 13 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Jana Zills on 13 Mar 14
     
    Gone are the days of using pencil and paper to figure out math problems. I personally learned math this way, then got up in high school and had to learn how to use a scientific calculator. I had a class for a year about how to use this calculator. Since then math and I aren't friends. In that sense I think it has made us more technologically smart but not more math smart because the calculator does all the work for us. I was actually having a discussion with an old high school math teacher of mine a few days ago and she said no longer can she count off for incorrect equal signs or actually feel like she's teaching because of all the new technology. Computers are teaching students these days. I think it contributes to us being lazy too and not using all of our brainpower.
  • Matt Lowery on 13 Mar 14
     
    I agree with the point that you made above, this article was very informative and provides quite a few insights that I found interesting. The most interesting to me is the way that search engines contribute to the way we remember things. I've never considered this before, but thinking back it's definitely true! Good find!
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