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Randall Oxendine

Finishing Up! - 0 views

Document Review

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adam gutierrez

Does anyone feel like your technology hinders your ability to be social? - 1 views

Feel free to post your thoughts. If technology does hinder your ability to be social, what do you do about it?

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adam gutierrez

Children losing nostalgia from iPads - 0 views

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  • adam gutierrez on 11 Apr 14
     
    It's so sad to hear that children are more likely to forget about the good past times of reading their favorite novel. I think what's happening here is pretty clear. Because iPads have an immediate source of gratification it's almost like they're an oxy-moron. To read a book on an iPad is like drinking sprite and eating bananas on a roller coaster. It starts out fun, but then just ends up to be a big mess. If you want to read a book read one made from paper that has character. Not this soulless technical gear that is really just enfeebling us to be a mindless ill literate consumer zombie.
Randall Oxendine

Turning in the assignment - 13 views

Bumping this up so others can find the link to the Peer Review.

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Simora Martin

What Skills Are Employers Looking For? - 0 views

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  • Employability skills are generally divided into three skill sets: (a) basic academic skills, (b) critical thinking skills and (c) personal qualities. The three skill sets are typically broken down into more detailed skill sets.
  • The ability to read with understanding, also known as reading comprehension, is critical to successful employment. If you cannot fully understand the instructions on how to apply for a job, you are at a disadvantage.
  • Employers look for people who communicate well both orally and in writing. You need communication skills to sell yourself during the interview.
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  • Listening skills involve not only hearing but understanding. The sign that you were listening is that you can act on the information that you heard. Listening means gaining information and understanding information.
  • Decision making and reasoning involve gathering information, evaluating a variety of solutions, and selecting the best option.
  • Planning and organizing are also critical thinking skills.
Albert Martinez

Google Drive Document - 29 views

I find your revision of the title much better. Shorter and straight to the point. and I just added this to the diigo group and will be adding it to the doc: "Schools are continuously updating the...

Google Drive Document Editing Assignment

started by Randall Oxendine on 09 Apr 14 5 follow-ups, last by Albert Martinez on 10 Apr 14
Albert Martinez

Digital literacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • This new era poses major challenges to the flow of news and information people depend on to manage their complex lives. In the context of this report, digital and media literacy is seen as a constellation of life skills that are necessary for full participation in our media-saturated, information-rich society. According to Renee Hobbs, author of the white paper, Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action, these include the ability to do the following: Make responsible choices and access information by locating and sharing materials and comprehending information and ideas Analyze messages in a variety of forms by identifying the author, purpose and point of view, and evaluating the quality and credibility of the content Create content in a variety of forms, making use of language, images, sound, and new digital tools and technologies Reflect on one’s own conduct and communication behavior by applying social responsibility and ethical principles Take social action by working individually and collaboratively to share knowledge and solve problems in the family, workplace and community, and by participating as a member of a community Digital and media literacy competencies, which constitute core competencies of citizenship in the digital age, have enormous practical value. Hobbs identifies a 10-point action plan to enable all Americans to acquire digital and media literacy competencies.
  • Digital literacy requires certain skill sets that are interdisciplinary in nature. Warshauer and Matuchniak list information, media, and technology; learning and innovation skills; and life and career skills as the three skill sets that individuals need to master in order to be digitally literate, or the 21st-century skills
  • Eshet-Alkalai contends that there are five types of literacies that are encompassed in the umbrella term that is digital literacy
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  • (1) Photo-visual literacy is the ability to read and deduce information from visuals.
  • (2) Reproduction literacy is the ability to use digital technology to create a new piece of work or combine existing pieces of work together to make it your own.
  • (3) Branching literacy is the ability to successfully navigate in the non-linear medium of digital space.
  • (4) Information literacy is the ability to search, locate, assess and critically evaluate information found on the web.
  • (5) Lastly, socio-emotional literacy refers to the social and emotional aspects of being present online, whether it may be through socializing, and collaborating, or simply consuming content.
  • Schools are continuously updating their curriculum for digital literacy to keep up with accelerating technological developments.
  • These techniques are most effective when the teacher is digitally literate as well.
  • This means that today's educators may struggle to find effective teaching methods for digital natives. Digital immigrants might resist teaching digital literacy because they themselves weren't taught that way. Prensky believes this is a problem because today's students are "a population that speaks an entirely new language"[5] than the people who educate them.
  • Research published in 2012 found that the digital divide, as defined by access to information technology, does not exist amongst youth in the United States.[18] Young people of all races and ethnicities report being connected to the internet at rates of 94-98%.[18] There remains, however, a Civic Opportunity Gap, where youth from poorer families and those attending lower socioeconomic status schools are less likely to encounter opportunities to apply their digital literacies toward civic ends
Albert Martinez

Digital skills of internet natives: Different forms of digital literacy in a random sam... - 0 views

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  • Digital skills of internet natives: Different forms of digital literacy in a random sample of northern Italian high school students
  • main results and methodological challenges of a large-scale survey on actual digital skills
  • A test covering three main dimensions of digital literacy (theoretical, operational and evaluation skills)
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  • sample performed better in operational skills
  • particularly poor performance regarding evaluation skills
  • cultural background has a significant effect, which is stronger on operational skills, while gender shows a more definite impact on theoretical knowledge.
Albert Martinez

25 Negative Effects of Technology - RooGirl - 2 views

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  • Here are 25 negative effects technology can have:
  • 1. IsolationSocial isolation is characterized by a lack of contact with other people in normal daily living
  • 2. Lack of Social SkillsThe use of online social media outlets causes us to meet face-to-face with much less frequency resulting in a lack of much needed social skills. We lose the ability to read body language and social cues in other people.
    • Albert Martinez
      Albert Martinez on 10 Apr 14
       
      Abuse of technology use, creating negative unhealthy impacts on social environments and personal lives
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  • isolate ourselves by walking around in our own little world, listening to our iPods or staring at the screen of the latest mobile device even when we are around other people. Studies have shown that people who are socially isolated will live shorter lives.
  • 5. Poor Sleep HabitsSome of the negative effects of technology can be linked to the effect it has on sleep habits. We get sucked into online activities that keep us up too late and the constant stream of information can make it difficult to turn off our brains.
    • Albert Martinez
      Albert Martinez on 10 Apr 14
       
      Poor sleep habits is critically and incredibly vital to keeping sane and healthy. Lack of sleep is a huge factor in crazy behavior. I'll add supporting documentation soon
  • 6. PollutionWith the rapid-changing world of electronics and technology, the turnover rate for upgrades is staggering. This constant stream of out with the old, in with the new is adding to the levels of toxicity in our air and land.
    • Albert Martinez
      Albert Martinez on 10 Apr 14
       
      relating it to properly and responsibly using digital tools.Responsibility and Accountability. 
Albert Martinez

What is Important? Digital Literacy or Literacy in a Digital Environment?: EBSCOhost - 0 views

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  • To become digital literate and to take profit of the power of digital technology in learning, basic literacy is more important than technical competences. The overemphasis on digital software in middle school programs, neglecting basic literacy and critical text analysis skills, might become a negative factor in the use of present powerful data and information resources and explain the sometimes disappointing results of digital learning.
Dangelo Robinson

THE FALL OF DIGITAL LITERACY DUE TO TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES - 1 views

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  • Dangelo Robinson on 10 Apr 14
     
    The floppy disk from the 80's couldnt be exposed to sunlight or really even touched. The 3.5 floppy was too bulky to carry around even with the silver protective slide was easily bent. People though the flash drive was cool, stylish and portable til you lost it, then lost another one and another and another one. The SD card didnt make it any better due to more up to date laptops dont support them. Now everyone has a cell phone which they can search save and download pretty much anything (as long as they have a signal) The easier it is to research and learn, the less I feel people will retain.
Desiree Jackson

The Future of Reading Digital Versus Print - 0 views

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  • Desiree Jackson on 10 Apr 14
     
    A slender, chatty blonde who wears black-framed plastic glasses, Nadia checks her e-mail and peruses myyearbook.com, a social networking site, reading messages or posting updates on her mood. She searches for music videos on YouTube and logs onto Gaia Online, a role-playing site where members fashion alternate identities as cutesy cartoon characters. But she spends most of her time on quizilla.com or fanfiction.net, reading and commenting on stories written by other users and based on books, television shows or movies.
Desiree Jackson

The Internet and Literacy: Positive and Negative Effects Felt in Local High Schools - 1 views

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  • Desiree Jackson on 10 Apr 14
     
    Alexa Battey, a student teacher at Southern Alamance High School, looks around the room at her 20 College Prep English seniors. Most of them look bored reading Macbeth which some have even referred to as "MacBoring." Far from the Internet surfing these teens are used to, Macbeth requires interpretation, not just the surface reading these teens have become accustomed to. "The novels seem to be over their heads," Battey said. "They're not used to that type of writing…They're used to things being very basic. Things on the Internet today are easy-reads, just stating the facts and basic details. They're smart, but they're used to things being put in front of them and not having to dig deep."
Randall Oxendine

School of Education at Johns Hopkins University-Instant Messaging: Friend or Foe of Stu... - 0 views

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  • According to Lee (2002), "teachers say that papers are being written with shortened words, improper capitalization and punctuation, and characters like &, $ and @. " However, something that is not always considered is that these mistakes are often unintentional – when students use IM frequently, they reach a saturation point where they no longer notice the IM lingo because they are so used to seeing it.
  • This was also a problem for Carl Sharp, whose 15-year old son's summer job application read "i want 2 b a counselor because i love 2 work with kids" (Friess, 2003), and English instructor Cindy Glover, who – while teaching undergraduate freshman composition in 2002 – "spent a lot of time unteaching Internet-speak. 'My students were trying to communicate fairly academic, scholarly thoughts, but some of them didn't seem to know it's "y-o-u," not "u"'" (Freiss, 2003.) These examples give credence to Montana Hodgen's point, that heavy IM use actually changes the way students read words on a page.
  • Students need to understand the importance of using the appropriate language in the appropriate setting, and that who one is writing for affects the way in which one writes. For example, IM-speak is perfectly acceptable when instant messaging with someone; on the flip side it is completely unacceptable when writing a formal letter. The same thing is true of formal writing – it is appropriate in an official document, such as a school paper, but would be inappropriate in-- for example-- an online chat room.
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  • Lee, J. (2002, September 19). I Think, Therefore IM. New York Times, p.G.1.
  • Friess, S. (2003, April 1). 'Yo, can u plz help me write English?': Parents fear online chatting ruins kids' language skills. USA Today, p.D.08.
  • However, something that is not always considered is that these mistakes are often unintentional – when students use IM frequently, they reach a saturation point where they no longer notice the IM lingo because they are so used to seeing it. Montana Hodgen, a 16-year old high school student in Montclair, New Jersey, "was so accustomed to instant-messaging abbreviations that she often read right past them" (Lee, 2002). As she puts it, "I was so used to reading what my friends wrote to me on Instant Messenger that I didn't even realize that there was something wrong," she said. She said her ability to separate formal and informal English declined the more she used instant messages" (Lee, 2002).
Randall Oxendine

Writing, Technology and Teens | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project - 0 views

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  • Even though teens are heavily embedded in a tech-rich world, they do not believe that communication over the internet or text messaging is writing.
Simora Martin

Literacy rates expected to worsen - 0 views

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  • Simora Martin on 09 Apr 14
     
    Edmonton Journal (Alberta) September 8, 2010 Wednesday Final Edition Literacy rates expected to worsen BYLINE: Postmedia News SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A6 LENGTH: 399 words DATELINE: OTTAWA Current low literacy rates in Canada's biggest cities are expected to be about the same in 20 years unless some serious efforts to improve them are made now, a new report released today warns. Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Ottawa are all on track to see the number of adults with low literacy levels in their populations soar because of demographic shifts, according to a report from the Canadian Council on Learning, and it should be a major concern for the cities, the group's president says. "It's surprising for people who think that the problem of low levels of literacy among Canadian adults will improve over time, because they won't," Paul Cappon said in an interview. "And that includes in the bigger cities where people might have thought you'd get the most improvement." The latest numbers from the CCL indicate that about 48 per cent of adults have low literacy rates and projections show little is expected to change over the next 20 years. By 2031, about 47 per cent of Canadian adults are projected to have low prose literacy skills, as defined by the OECD's International Adults Literacy and Skills Survey -- which means they'll have difficulty reading, comprehending and functioning effectively with written material. While the percentage is expected to stay the same, the total number of Canadians with low literacy is predicted to jump 25 per cent to 15 million between 2001 and 2031. The major factor behind that trend is the projected growth in the number of senior citizens and immigrants, the report said. In Toronto, a slight decrease of five per cent in the share of the population with low literacy is expected by 2031, but the absolute number of residents who need help is expected to go from 1.9 million to 3.2 million. The change in Toronto is being driven mostly by immigrati
Simora Martin

A lament for the future of meaningful reading; Why bother with serious books when Angry... - 0 views

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    Edmonton Journal (Alberta) January 22, 2012 Sunday Final Edition A lament for the future of meaningful reading; Why bother with serious books when Angry Birds is a tap away? BYLINE: Brett Josef Grubisic, Vancouver Sun SECTION: SUNDAY READER; Pg. B9 LENGTH: 1036 words Reading the 21st Century Stan Persky McGill Queens University Press 278 pp; $29.95 In an article about the good deeds of E.D. Hirsch, the recently deceased American cultural literacy superstar Christopher Hitchens dropped alarming findings from a nationwide survey: "The chances of a 17-yearold American being able to say anything meaningful about Thomas Jefferson are disconcertingly slight. The chances of the same student knowing anything significant about Poe, or slavery, or of being able to translate the most elementary Latin . or even being able to define the word 'ironic' are slighter still." Published shortly after Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind and Hirsch's Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, Hitchens' New York Times piece drew references from a 1988 survey. Since the ensuing two decades have witnessed the explosive growth of the Internet and gadgets for every occasion, it is tempting to wonder about the cultural literacy of that former disappointing test-subject's teenage son. A professional philosopher at Vancouver's Capilano University for nearly three decades and the author of more than 20 books that range from sexual politics (Buddies: Meditations on Desire, On Kiddie Porn) to Canadian politics (Fantasy Government, Delgamuukw), Chicago-born Stan Persky has been studying the data. He cannot be labelled an optimist. Persky's latest work - which he calls a "jeremiad, as defined by the writer Brian Fawcett: as accurate a description as possible of the present situation" - expands his impressive range while remaining close to an ever-keen interest in the cultural landscape of the here and now. Page-wise, Reading the 21st Century is dedicated primarily to signifi
Simora Martin

Facebook and Twitter 'harm pupils literacy' claim headmasters | Mail Online - 0 views

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  • Children's literacy is being damaged by social media, headmasters claim.They say pupils are too distracted by sites such as Facebook and Twitter to bother to read a book.As a result, thousands are poor spellers and have little understanding of grammar.
  • A survey of 214 secondary school heads found that 70 per cent believe Facebook and Twitter are ‘bad for literacy’.
  • Excessive use of such sites means youngsters’ spelling and grammar have deteriorated.
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  • The research, conducted by Booked, a magazine for schools, found that half of Britain’s headmasters are concerned about their pupils’ approach to reading.
  • ‘From a social perspective, it appears to confirm the massive rise in social media use among the young is having a major impact on writing skills with little or no attempt by parents to stop it.’
  • Bosses regularly complain about the poor literacy standards among school leavers, whose written English in applications forms and CVs can be shocking.
  • England is the only developed country producing children who are worse at reading and maths than their grandparents, according to a recent report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
  • ‘While the Government is doing good work to improve the rigour of the curriculum, it must also learn lessons from those countries that perform well, on how to improve and retain these vital skills, to ensure the UK doesn’t find itself with an unskilled workforce.’
Simora Martin

Guest column: Texting, social media sites causing bad habits in our students | MLive.com - 0 views

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  • However, my job has become significantly more challenging than it was when I began my career 28 years ago. Texting and social networking sites have hurt students’ literacy skills.
  • However, when students text or use social networking sites, they aren’t practicing the language and writing conventions expected of literate adults and tested on the MEAP. Instead, they are developing habits that will not contribute to academic or career success.
  • They also don’t require writing in complete sentences. Twitter, for example, only allows 140 characters. Consequently, many students write in fragments and run-ons.
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  • There also is a negative effect on punctuation, especially when texting. It ignores language and writing conventions. Many students have no idea when to use capital letters. They don’t capitalize ‘I.’ They don’t capitalize proper names. You’re/your, there/their/they’re, and its/it’s become interchangeable. Punctuation is haphazard.
  • Texting and social networking might have advanced “small talk” communication, but they don’t encourage deeper, more meaningful communication — the type of literacy necessary for academic success or a professional career.
Simora Martin

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, 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.
  • 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.
  • "By using more visual media, students will process information better," she said. "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. Technology is not a panacea in education, because of the skills that are being lost.
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  • mong the studies Greenfield analyzed was a classroom study showing that students who were given access to the Internet during class and were encouraged to use it during lectures did not process what the speaker said as well as students who did not have Internet access. When students were tested after class lectures, those who did not have Internet access performed better than those who did.
  • Another study Greenfield analyzed found that college students who watched "CNN Headline News" with just the news anchor on screen and without the "news crawl" across the bottom of the screen remembered significantly more facts from the televised broadcast than those who watched it with the distraction of the crawling text and with additional stock market and weather information on the screen.
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