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Technology and Damage to Literacy - 1 views

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literacy technology dispute

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  • However, our dependency on technology can also make us lazy. Why bother to strain our eyes reading when the television will tell us about important occurrences and entertain us? Why write a letter when your family member or friend can be talked to directly over the telephone? Avoiding the practice of certain literacies will eventually lower the level of one's literacy. To avoid decreasing levels of literacy caused by technology certain precautions must be taken.
  • Hirsch says that in order to be culturally literate one only needs to know a certain amount of specific ideas. If there are 5,000 ideas that when known are adequate for understanding a culture then if it were easy to look up these 5,000 ideas on demand the culture would be understood. Raskin proposes that a computer could store a list of these ideas along with descriptions making "it easy for an uncultured person encountering one of the expressions to look it up in the database and get the general picture" ( Raskin, p. 202). Hirsch believes that schools provide the common background, but if a database of cultural references existed then schools would not need teach what the students already have easy access to. The schools could teach the students how to use the database and the students would never need to become culturally literate.
  • Technology does have the potential to destroy cultural, literacy but that is only if cultural literacy depends on a select group of ideas as Hirsch believes it does. The select group of ideas important to a society must also exist before technology can make memorizing the list pointless. It is only possible for students to be taught so much information in their academic lives and for all schools to collaborate and decide what should be taught would be impossible
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  • . So if a student of a certain race can become literate independent of what culture he is from then literacy must depend on education. Schools teach the literacy skills needed to compete for jobs: "in modern societies the school is the principal institution adapting children to bureaucratized industrial economy" ( Ogbu, p. 32). If a group of students is not receiving a fair education then that group will not be able to compete in the work-force. If the discontinuities in education are fixed then literacy will improve for the groups which were being hurt. Ogbu has a strength in that he believes that educational institutions provide means for later survival but he also makes it seem like our schools are unfair and it is impossible for everyone to get a good education
  • However, as technology continues to improve the imbalances will only increase. The schools which have adequate money will be able to buy computers and other technology which improves education.
  • Schools located in poor, predominately minority areas such as the schools in Ogbu's examples would be likely to not have adequate money for new technologies. If other students are benefiting from being taught from computers and also are becoming computer literate, a skill applicable in the work-place, then the students lacking technologies will not be able to compete outside of school. The fortunate students will have a definite advantage and the unfortunate students will be even further behind.
  • Technology does have the potential of damaging literacy. If Hirsch is correct about cultural literacy depending on a certain set of ideas then technology may advance to the point where we can use databases constantly and not need have as much knowledge as we do now. If Hirsch is wrong then we will not need to worry about technology destroying that literacy. Raskin says that computer teachers may result in negative results. Computer teachers can be optimized and once an optimum computer is developed it would be easy to distribute duplicates. The drawback is that students do not need to develop social skills to interact with a computer and may even be damaged from this lack of human interaction. To prevent this, schools should not use computer teaching a majority of the time. Ogbu is concerned about all students receiving an equal education and if computers can aid education, either in teaching fundamental subjects or in teaching computer literacy, then students who have access to this technology will be advantaged. To ensure equality, government programs could supply schools with fair levels of technology. Technology may be able to damage education or literacy but if technology is monitored it can be used to aid education and literacy in great ways.
jarica

The 4 Negative Side Effects Of Technology | Edudemic - 0 views

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decline in literacy

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  • What are we to do about the tech overload happening right now to students and everyone else?
  • However, the overuse of these advancements can really hamper or even damage their development in the personal growth, communication and educational department.
  • These activities have affected their psyche negatively, consequently leading to increased frustration. Now they get frustrated whenever they are asked to do anything while playing games or using internet
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  • Patience is a very precious virtue
  • For example, children get frustrated quickly when they surf internet and the page they want to view takes time to load.
  • Due to the excessive usage of online chatting and shortcuts, the writing skills of today’s young generation have declined quite tremendously.
  • Due to that they don’t know how to interact with others when they meet them in-person or what gesture they should carry.
jarica

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

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decline in critical thinking and analysis due to technological advances

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  • As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined, while our visual skills have improved, according to research by Patricia Greenfield, UCLA distinguished professor of psychology and director of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles
  • Learners have changed as a result of their exposure to technology,
  • 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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  • However, most visual media are real-time media that do not allow time for reflection, analysis or imagination — those do not get developed by real-time media such as television or video games.
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