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Brandon King

Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis? / UCLA N... - 0 views

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  • As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined,
  • Reading for pleasure, which has declined among young people in recent decades, enhances thinking and engages the imagination in a way that visual media such as video games and television do not, Greenfield said.
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      Brandon King on 16 Aug 13
       
      Basically about reading for please is thing of the past most don't do it and technology plays a big role in our lives but weakens us in terms of reading,grammar, and writing skills.
Orlando Gonzalez

Technology: Declining Literacy or Changing it? by Brian West on Prezi - 0 views

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  • Agree The NEA makes a convincing case that both kids and adults are reading fewer books.
  • picking up a book for the fun of it - is down 7% since 1992 for all adults, and 12% for 18-24 year olds
  • in 1992, 43% of Americans read at an intermediate level; by 2003 the number was slightly higher at 44%. "Proficient" readers dropped slightly, from 15% to 13%.
Andrew Hart

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

I've been researching some articles and came across one that points out how our visual skills have improved and that really goes along with being a digital native. Unfortunately with the use of so ...

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Brandon King

The Decreasing Literacy Skills of the Workforce - Changing Responsibilities of Business... - 1 views

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  • In 2001, the American Management Association found that one-third of job applicants flunked basic literacy and math tests. 
  • There is plenty of evidence that literacy skills continue to decline. U.S. government data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress shows that after years of educational reforms, high school seniors scored worse on a national reading test than they had back in 1992. Less than three-quarters of U.S. 12th graders scored at at least the “basic” level, down from 80% in the early 1990s. 
  • Employers view reading and writing as critical basic skills, yet they are often at a loss about how to improve those skills among their workforce without incurring huge costs and loss of on-the-job time. Training programs abound to train managers and staff about project and budget control and various technical disciplines, but few programs exist to teach basic skills and employers find it difficult to justify such expenditures. 
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  • The Center for Lifelong Learning was created to address these and other pressing literacy issues. 
  • We believe that the problem of the decline in literacy is exacerbated by the fact that nearly everyone is taught to read using techniques that modern education and brain researchers have proven to be antiquated. Since the beginning of mass education in the U.S., students have been taught to read, starting in Kindergarten, in ways that have been shown to be the opposite of the way our brains work. 
  • Most people attribute their reading problems to their own failings as students. Yet the problem is really the techniques they were taught to use, not their brain and its native capabilities. 
  • Researchers have found that the reality is that the faster you read, the more you remember. It’s the way our brains are designed. In school, kids are taught to read one word at a time, to stop reading at the end of a line until they reach the left side of the page again, and, worst of all, to say the words out loud in their head. All of these practices are exactly the opposite of the reality of the way our brains want information delivered.
  • Researchers have found that the reality is that the faster you read, the more you remember. It’s the way our brains are designed. In school, kids are taught to read one word at a time, to stop reading at the end of a line until they reach the left side of the page again, and, worst of all, to say the words out loud in their head. All of these practices are exactly the opposite of the reality of the way our brains want information delivered.
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      Brandon King on 16 Aug 13
       
      this article discusses the decreasing literacy skills in jobs because of advancements of technology
Jasmine H

Is Technology Ruining Our Ability to Write? - 0 views

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  • Check out these findings from Docmail’s study: Two thirds of those surveyed said if they do write something on paper, it’s usually something only they will see, such as a note or reminder. More than half said they don’t take pride in their handwriting. One in five can’t remember the last time they were required to write something neatly. Over half said the quality of their handwriting has noticeably declined, with one in seven being “very ashamed” of it. Nearly half (44%) said their handwriting isn’t easy to read and a third said they often struggle to read their own writing. Even so, remarkably a sixth of those surveyed don’t believe handwriting should still be taught in schools.
  • All this technology is not only affecting the quality of our handwriting, it’s hurting our ability to spell, as well. Four in ten of those surveyed said they increasingly rely on predictive text, which is when your mobile device finishes a word you start to input.
Orlando Gonzalez

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

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  • Little or no grammar teaching, cell phone texting, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, are all being blamed for an increasingly unacceptable number of post-secondary students who can't write.
  • "Thirty per cent of students who are admitted are not able to pass at a minimum level,"
  • Poor grammar is the major reason students fail
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  • "If a student has problems with articles, prepositions, verb tenses, that's a problem."
  • Cellphone texting and social networking on Internet sites are degrading writing skills
  • Barrett says the failure rate has jumped five percentage points in the past few years, up to 30 per cent from 25 per cent.
  • Orlando Gonzalez on 12 Aug 13
     
    This article discusses how social networking is hurting the youth of today on how to use proper grammar. "Students seem to have absolutely no idea what an apostrophe is for"
  • Orlando Gonzalez on 12 Aug 13
     
    Schools are not teaching the proper way to use grammar anymore, and with the internet being so dominant our youth today thinks that "U" instead of "YOU" is acceptable etc....
  • Gilbert Lawrence on 13 Aug 13
     
    If you really think about it they don't really push writing in cursive anymore either. It shows how dramatic technology is affecting writing skills.
Orlando Gonzalez

Downsides and disadvantages of improvements in technology | The Herald - 0 views

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  • Technology has advanced to the point where today’s generation communicates mainly with technology. From texting, MySpace and Facebook, people are finding other means of communicating with each other.
  • One way that people lack in communication skills due to technol­ogy is spelling.
  • Nonverbal communication skills are also lacking.
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  • Good communication skills are important in the workplace and in our daily lives.
  • For the past few years everything is designed to be more conve­nient for people, such as new generation iPods, faster phones and computers.
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