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Jana Zills

Technology make us smarter or dumber - 1 views

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    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.
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    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!
moriahlynn

30 Reasons Reading Should Take Priority Over Technology and Social Media - Reading Hori... - 0 views

  • The internet and technology haven’t only impacted the way we read, but it has also created several distractions and alternatives to reading.  We are still reading via technology (text messages, status updates, and articles) but there are ever-increasing distractions from choosing to spend our time reading a book or other activities that build reading comprehension and fluency. 
Tony Phillips

I agree - 6 views

Yeah, a case can certainly be made that technology is more a convenience than an enhancement, but obviously this view has to be supported. And I agree with you Jana, that being able to take this co...

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 ...

moriahlynn

Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis? / UCLA N... - 1 views

  • "Studies show that reading develops imagination, induction, reflection and critical thinking, as well as vocabulary," Greenfield said. "Reading for pleasure is the key to developing these skills. Students today have more visual literacy and less print literacy. Many students do not read for pleasure and have not for decades."
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    This release by UCLA newsroom sheds light on a study and quotes Patricia Greenfield, UCLA distinguished professor of psychology and director of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles as saying that "Wiring classrooms for Internet access does not enhance learning," among other statements she makes in the study.
moriahlynn

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

  • 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."
Tony Phillips

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

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    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?"
Jana Zills

Traditional Literacy vs Media Literacy - 8 views

This is a good question. Maybe the new and the old exist together. For example, paperless versions of magazines and newspapers on iPads and related technology. Reducing waste, but that's a differen...

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