Maybe you should present to the instructor since you started this Diigo. I'd love to have a chat with everyone at once, maybe we can get this going.

I'll get AIM and we can do AIM if everyone is okay with it. I need to get AIM anyway it looks like the way Full Sail is doing things with instructors and keeping it contact.

I added you Matt! I'm jana.zills@gmail.com on AIM if that's what we are doing.

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.

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 different subject. Medias literacy is something we are all learning everyday, I just can't read a magazine online or a newspaper online. I have to physically have it in front of me to grasp the content.

I'm on the fence on this subject. I think it could be helpful to literacy because you have things like spell check and corrected grammar errors in some programs. Also with the internet you are reading a lot so that is beneficial. On the other hand I think that technology is relied on too heavily for teaching us to spell and teaching us grammar. We don't have to use our minds as much because technology will do it for us. If you don't believe that, think back to a time when you didn't know how to spell a word on paper, no resources to look it up. Simple words. I'm a spelling buff so I think we should rely on ourselves to spell words correctly. The new age is rely on technology making us a bit lazy.

I like to use your, you're, ur, and u r as an example. In the past I've seen students that have used "u r" in a formal paper. It makes me a little upset just because I've always loved grammar and spelling and make it a point to use to correctly. English taught in school is a dying subject. I heard one of cousin's say the other day "I don't need English in school, I already speak the language." To me, that's the most silly thing I've ever heard. It's not about learning the language but about putting it on paper correctly.

I agree with you! People are sucked in by a title and that's it. I think Twitter is used more frequently than any other social media and with the character limit they are forced to using short messages. I this this also goes back to older phones when there was a text message character limit and every "page" counted as one message. People were trying to save their space and I think that's where the shorter message language came from initially.

I agree with your previous post Tony, wiring a classroom with internet won't help you learn. It is just keeping up with the digital age. It is true that not a lot of younger children/teenagers read for pleasure. I'm sure they think it is torture to read. I love reading and feel it's beneficial. Technology has nothing to do with the way I learn nor has it helped me, besides getting to go to online college here with you guys.

I forgot to add about audio books aren't helping either. I think that for years TV has had an effect on learning ability but reading to me has always been important. I've never owned a audio book in my life, but some people are big on them. I'm old fashioned in regards to picking up a book and reading it will help exercise your brain.

This was posted on the connect front page and thought it would be beneficial to add here for this topic