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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.
Brandon King

There Are No Technology Shortcuts to Good Education « Educational Technology ... - 0 views

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  • There are no technology shortcuts to good education. For primary and secondary schools that are underperforming or limited in resources, efforts to improve education should focus almost exclusively on better teachers and stronger administrations. Information technology, if used at all, should be targeted for certain, specific uses or limited to well-funded schools whose fundamentals are not in question.
  • To back these assertions, I’ll draw on four different lines of evidence.
  • The history of electronic technologies in schools is fraught with failures. Computers are no exception, and rigorous studies show that it is incredibly difficult to have positive educational impact with computers. Technology at best only amplifies the pedagogical capacity of educational systems; it can make good schools better, but it makes bad schools worse. Technology has a huge opportunity cost in the form of more effective non-technology interventions. Many good school systems excel without much technology.
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      Brandon King on 12 Aug 13
       
      the place where it starts with "The history" is where there supposed to be a 1. and going down to 4. it didn't bookmark the numbers for some reason.
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
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