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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.
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      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.
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      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.
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      Albert Martinez on 10 Apr 14
       
      relating it to properly and responsibly using digital tools.Responsibility and Accountability. 
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.
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
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.’
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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Desiree Jackson

The Future of Reading Digital Versus Print - 0 views

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    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.
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
Desiree Jackson

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

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    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

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

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Internet Lingo students Texting social writing

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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.
Randall Oxendine

Education World: Does Texting Harm Students' Writing Skills? - 0 views

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Cyber Slang reading Facebook

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  • One only has to spend about two minutes browsing the public pages of a social media platform like Facebook to find examples of cyber slang. In some cases, a second and third read is required before a sentence begins to make sense. A public Facebook page entitled “If you think the rules at UnionCounty High School are ridiculous,” dealing with school policies in Union, S.C. offers these examples: “the new policy on dress code they handed out last week is our last chance 2 keep us out of uniforms. the new super intendant as u all know is from spartanburg is using the saturday school crap 2 take a note on how many offenses we have & will use it 2 make her decision. so we ned 2 stop breaking the dress code or we might have 2 really fight uniforms next year.” “dont worry abt us wearing uniforms nxt year. our parents wont buy them & the district cant even give us the first set cuz our parents pay the taxes & we cant afford them. so get ur parents opinion & make them disagress with uniforms!”
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    Example of what you can easily find typed onto Facebook
Randall Oxendine

I Think, Therefore IM - New York Times - 0 views

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  • As more and more teenagers socialize online, middle school and high school teachers like Ms. Harding are increasingly seeing a breezy form of Internet English jump from e-mail into schoolwork. To their dismay, teachers say that papers are being written with shortened words, improper capitalization and punctuation, and characters like &, $ and @.
  • Even terms that cannot be expressed verbally are making their way into papers. Melanie Weaver was stunned by some of the term papers she received from a 10th-grade class she recently taught as part of an internship. ''They would be trying to make a point in a paper, they would put a smiley face in the end,'' said Ms. Weaver, who teaches at Alvernia College in Reading, Pa. ''If they were presenting an argument and they needed to present an opposite view, they would put a frown.''
  • Ms. Harding noted that in some cases the shorthand isn't even shorter. ''I understand 'cuz,' but what's with the 'wuz'? It's the same amount of letters as 'was,' so what's the point?'' she said.
  • Randall Oxendine on 09 Apr 14
     
    A NYTimes.com article from the views of a couple Middle/High School teachers.
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.
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