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luvshaggies

The Guardian : Increase in plagiarism among college students thought to be caused by te... - 1 views

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dispute technology

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  • Technology has brought about another simple way to transmit information: purchasing online essays.
  • Technology has brought about another simple way to transmit information: purchasing online essays.
  • Technology has brought about another simple way to transmit information: purchasing online essays.
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  • According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 55 percent of college presidents declared that there was a noticeable increase in the numbers of plagiarized works in their colleges. Of that 55 percent, 89 percent stated that the growth of technology was a significant contributor to this increase.
  • According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 55 percent of college presidents declared that there was a noticeable increase in the numbers of plagiarized works in their colleges. Of that 55 percent, 89 percent stated that the growth of technology was a significant contributor to this increase.
  • According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 55 percent of college presidents declared that there was a noticeable increase in the numbers of plagiarized works in their colleges. Of that 55 percent, 89 percent stated that the growth of technology was a significant contributor to this increase.
  • According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 55 percent of college presidents declared that there was a noticeable increase in the numbers of plagiarized works in their colleges. Of that 55 percent, 89 percent stated that the growth of technology was a significant contributor to this increase.
  • According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 55 percent of college presidents declared that there was a noticeable increase in the numbers of plagiarized works in their colleges. Of that 55 percent, 89 percent stated that the growth of technology was a significant contributor to this increase.
jbrim86

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

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

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texting causes spelling_grammar problems

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  • Ontario's Waterloo University is one of the few post-secondary institutions in Canada to require the students they accept to pass an exam testing their English language skills. Almost a third of those students are failing.
  • Barrett says the failure rate has jumped five percentage points in the past few years, up to 30 per cent from 25 per cent.
  • "Little happy faces ... or a sad face ... little abbreviations," show up even in letters of academic appeal, says Khan Hemani. "Instead of 'because', it's 'cuz'. That's one I see fairly frequently," she says, and these are new in the past five years.
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  • Cellphone texting and social networking on Internet sites are degrading writing skills, say even experts in the field.
jarica

Television and Literacy - 0 views

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Television and literacy

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  • The opposite theory can be seen with Norval D. Glenn. Glenn reports on a study released in 1991 by Alwin. The study examined the correlation between variables such as television, age, and family background with scores on a vocabulary test. (Glenn 216) The test was conducted by National Opinion Research Center (NORC ) from 1974 to 1990. The 10-item vocabulary test was administered to nine of the General Social Surveys. (216) The vocabulary test was developed in 1942 by Gallup and Thorndike and since then the education-adjusted mean vocabulary scores have been in decline.
  • Glenn shows that the Alwin study proves a negative correlation between television and vocabulary.
  • For example from 1975 to1990, the percentage of adults who have read an entire book in the past week declined from 30% to 24%. (Glenn 227). A more stunning statistic is the percentage of people who did not complete an entire book in the past year doubled from 8% in 1978 to 16% in 1990. Another major fault of Fowles argument is that it ignores children and young adults. Consuming and borrowing from the public library are not activities that the majority of children and young adults engage in, yet they are the one that tend to watch television the most. (Hornik 202)
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  • This shows that television is not only taking time away from reading but also mathematics, and other subjects. The displacement theory definitely is a useful tool in correcting the problems in which television can cause
jarica

Literacy Under Siege | Beyond Literacy - 0 views

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decline of literacy

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  • Television, movies, video games, mobile phones, and the Internet have all been identified as the culprits that rot the brain, desensitize, delude, and generally ruin the minds of the young (and perhaps everyone else too)
  • The media and popular press point clearly to new technologies as the cause of this decline but also, ironically, as the source of the “new literacy.”
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