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Television and Media Literacy in Young Children: Issues and Effects in Early Childhood ... - 2 views

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  • Television and Media Literacy in Young Children: Issues and Effects in Early Childhood Kamaruzaman Jusoff, Nurul Nadiah Sahimi Abstract elevision viewing among young children has been an on going issue as it is found to effect their development in various areas. This problem is getting more worrisome as the percentage and amount of hours of television exposure among young children is increasing, especially with the growing production of children television programs.  Studies have found that television exposure to young children could effects their language and cognitive development, lead to behavior problems, attention disorder, aggression and obesity.
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Pros and Cons of Technology in the Classroom and Where I Stand | Rachel Lynne's Blog - 0 views

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  • , I will share some of the findings of my group and explain how they impacted me and can impact all educators.
  • Negative Effects: Spell-check: Through our research we discovered that many students rely too heavily on spellcheck to correct their spelling, and as a result, have poor spelling skills.  In the following video, a high school girl describes her spelling problems from dependency on spellcheck.  It also addressed the problems that arise from text speak.
  • Other negative effects of technology on learning: -Technology makes it easier to cheat and plagarize -Decrease in critical thinking -Decrease in analysis skills -Decrease in imagination -Don’t process as much during class, easily distracted
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  • Are Digital Media Changing Language? http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/mar09/vol66/num06/Are_Digital_Media_Changing_Language¢.aspx Is Technology Producing a Decline in Critical Thinking and Analysis? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128092341.htm
  • Sparknotes and other such sources: When I was in high school, most of my peers never read the novels assigned in our classes because they could easily and quickly read a plot summary, character analysis, and theme, symbol, and motif summary on Sparknotes.  With this site and others like it so easily available, we can’t be surprised when kids don’t read books!  
  • This technology definitely has the potential to have a negative impact on student’s reading, writing, and critical thinking.
  • One of the issues we discovered is the negative effect texting and instant-message language has on student’s writing capabilities.  Our research shows that acronyms and abbreviations are slipping into student’s writing.  Rather than using formal English when writing papers, many students use digital language, which includes things like: -lower case ‘i’ rather than uppercase ‘I’ -b/c for because -idk for i don’t know -recurrent grammar issues
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New Perspectives on Popular Culture, Science and Technology: Web Browsers and the New ... - 4 views

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  • phorxx on 16 Jul 14
     
    Specifically aimed at the issue of illiteracy and technology in college.
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  • phorxx on 16 Jul 14
     
    A new technology extends one or more of our senses outside us into the social world, [and] then new ratios among all of our senses will occur in that particular culture… And when the sense ratios alter in any culture then what had appeared lucid before may suddenly be opaque. (The Gutenberg Galaxy, excerpted in McLuhan, E. & Zingrone, 1995, p.136)
  • phorxx on 16 Jul 14
     
    In classrooms today, instructors are frustrated by the fact that their students can read in the sense of pronouncing words, but frequently seem unable to comprehend in any depth what they have read. Few can paraphrase ideas by expressing them in different words. Many cannot find implied main ideas in a passage or synthesize several details to recognize a general trend. Of course, such problems are not new. They have always been characteristics of weak or learning disabled students. What is new is their increasing prevalence. Students who are articulate speakers with above average technical skills, who in other respects participate and learn well, may still perform ineffectively as readers
  • phorxx on 16 Jul 14
     
    Reading from a CRT (or video screen) is an unnatural activity because of the way the brain processes video information. Reading is a left-brain activity, whereas viewing video is a right-brain one. The mosaic pattern of light pulses must be reassembled by the right brain to create an image (pp.332-33). Thus words on a computer screen are seen as images, more like the jpg images that may accompany them than like spoken or written language. Because they are made of light patterns, they are "read" in the same way photographs are "read," described here by Postman (1985) in his book Amusing Ourselves To Death: The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented as a sequence of propositions. Meaning is distorted when a word or a sentence is, as we say, taken out of context; when a reader or listener is deprived of what was said before and after. But there is no such thing as a photograph taken out of context, for a photograph does not require one. In fact, the point of photography is to isolate images from context, so as to make them visible in a different way…" (p.73). College Quarterly - Winter 2004 Page 5 of 13 http://www.senecac.on.ca/quarterly/2004-vol07-num01-winter/charters.htmlIn this sense, then, interacting with a computer screen may be physically and psychologically more similar to watching television than to reading a book, print notwithstanding
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