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Dynabook - 0 views

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    1970's prototype for a new multimedia educational tool
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ED532474.pdf - 0 views

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    Why are GT students motivated and how do we motivate?
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The Role of Interest in Learning and Development - Google Books - 0 views

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    What is "interest", how do we study it, and how does it affect us?
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Powerful Ideas Need Love Too! - 0 views

  • Slowly, and only in a few, I watched them struggle to realize that having opposite seasons in the different hemispheres could not possibly be compatible with their "closer to the sun for summer" theory, and that the sun and the moon in the sky together could not possibly be compatible with their "Earth blocks the suns rays" theory of the phases.
  • Why more serious? Because the UCLA students and professors (and their Harvard counterparts) knew something that contradicted the very theories they were trying to articulate and not one of them could get to that contradictory knowledge to say, "Hey, wait a minute..."! In some form, they "knew" about the opposite seasons and that they had seen the sun and the moon in the sky at the same time, but they did not "know" in any operational sense of being able to pull it out of their memories when thinking about related topics. Their "knowings" were isolated instead of set up to be colliding steadily with new ideas as they were formed and considered.
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    Suggested by Gardner Campbell!
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Beyond Google: How do students conduct academic research? | Head | First Monday - 1 views

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    A study on how modern students conduct academic research
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Doing Internet Research: Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net - Google Books - 0 views

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    Asking the question "WHY" when we research
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Teacher beliefs and technology integration - 1 views

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    Why are technological subjects not taught in a consistent and unified manner like other relevant school topics?
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hinder-enhance.pdf - 3 views

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    Note to self to read later. Title leads me to believe I could work this into my argument on how Wikipedia encourages knowledge.
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The Condition: Existential Googling - The Awl - 4 views

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    I'm not sure exactly how to work this into my possible research yet but I love the topic and so I will bookmark it in hopes of future use.
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Youth collective activism through social media: The role of collective efficacy - 1 views

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    It's possible I could apply this idea if we can all agree on me calling Wikipedia a "social networking" site. Which it totally isn't. but it is a place in which people anonymously inform and therefore can be used to influence and instigate political discussions.
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Meet the Good Guys of the Deep Web - Hit & Run : Reason.com - 1 views

  • Doctor X is a trained physician that works on harm reduction projects in real life but helps Silk Road users in his free time by providing answers to any of their questions—all for free. He started in June 2013, and received 600 questions and 5,000 visits after just three months. In an interview with Joseph Cox of Vice, Doctor X said: "Drug users need more...They need answers, and that's what I try to provide. People ask me about the real risks and adverse effects, drug combinations [illegal and prescriptive] and the use of drugs in persons suffering from different conditions, such as diabetes or neurological problems."
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      This intrigues me for the same reason Wikipedia does -- it allows an almost endless amount of knowledge to anyone who knows how to seek it.
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    Article talks about basically the Black Market of the internet. Not directly useful, but I could work it in if I gear my topic towards the freedom and benefits of deep web surfing.
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Technology's Toll - Impatience and Forgetfulness - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • If you answered yes to any of those questions, exposure to technology may be slowly reshaping your personality.
  • Some experts suggest simply trying to curtail the amount of time you spend online. Set limits for how often you check e-mail or force yourself to leave your cellphone at home occasionally.
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    Discusses the internet's role in decreased focus. Suggests people go off the grid for a while, decrease time online. I find this to be a foolish suggestion...come on. People aren't (maybe even can't?) going to do that. This may, however, add to a counterargument I could address in my paper?
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This Is How The Internet Is Rewiring Your Brain - 5 views

  • A 2008 study suggests that use of Internet search engines can stimulate neural activation patterns and potentially enhance brain function in older adults. "The study results are encouraging, that emerging computerized technologies may have physiological effects and potential benefits for middle-aged and older adults," the study's principal investigator, Dr. Gary Small, professor of neuroscience and human behavior at UCLA, said in a written statement. "Internet searching engages complicated brain activity, which may help exercise and improve brain function."
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    Mostly this article works against my topic, but Fact 5 could prove useful. "Use of internet search engines can stimulate neural activation patterns and potentially enhance brain function..."
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Surfing for Inspiration - Editorial - Coast Reporter - 1 views

  • Who needs dope when you go on a mind-expanding trip just sitting at your computer?
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    This guy gets it. An editorial on websurfing and how it serves as an inpsiring distraction to "real work". Reminds me of a classmate's early blogpost about getting distracted from an assignment by getting interested in articles. Beautiful.
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Investing In Yourself: Why Surfing the Web is Necessary | Credible Copywriting - Profes... - 0 views

  • urfing the web aids in the inspiration of innovative ideas.
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    Why internet surfing is more beneficial than people give it credit for
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A review of Web searching studies and a framework for future research - Jansen - 2000 -... - 0 views

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    A study on trends in internet-based research
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Does Web Surfing Increase Productivity and Creativity at Work? - 0 views

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    Surfing in moderation can relieve stress and inspire creativity.
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Advantages and Disadvantages of the Internet - 0 views

  • The Internet has become an essential propagator of knowledge, both through free as well as paid services. The credibility of this form of education and whether it is safe, secure, and trustworthy, is usually proven through the quality and authenticity of content presented by each website. The World Wide Web has become a remarkable avenue for the academically unprivileged, to amass greater knowledge and know-how on subjects.
  • The Internet has become an essential propagator of knowledge, both through free as well as paid services. The credibility of this form of education and whether it is safe, secure, and trustworthy, is usually proven through the quality and authenticity of content presented by each website. The World Wide Web has become a remarkable avenue for the academically unprivileged, to amass greater knowledge and know-how on subjects.
  • The Internet has become an essential propagator of knowledge, both through free as well as paid services. The credibility of this form of education and whether it is safe, secure, and trustworthy, is usually proven through the quality and authenticity of content presented by each website. The World Wide Web has become a remarkable avenue for the academically unprivileged, to amass greater knowledge and know-how on subjects. The entire scope of homeschooling has expanded because of increased accessibility to videos of teachers giving lectures, showing diagrams and explaining concepts, much like a real classroom. Nonprofit organizations too have opened websites that seek volunteers and donations in order to help the ones in need. There are also sites like Wikipedia, Coursera, Babbel, Archive, and Teachertube, among others, that have dedicated themselves to the art of imparting knowledge to people of all age groups.
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  • The Internet has become an essential propagator of knowledge, both through free as well as paid services. The credibility of this form of education and whether it is safe, secure, and trustworthy, is usually proven through the quality and authenticity of content presented by each website. The World Wide Web has become a remarkable avenue for the academically unprivileged, to amass greater knowledge and know-how on subjects. The entire scope of homeschooling has expanded because of increased accessibility to videos of teachers giving lectures, showing diagrams and explaining concepts, much like a real classroom. Nonprofit organizations too have opened websites that seek volunteers and donations in order to help the ones in need. There are also sites like Wikipedia, Coursera, Babbel, Archive, and Teachertube, among others, that have dedicated themselves to the art of imparting knowledge to people of all age groups.
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    A simple opinion piece on the benefits and downsides of the internet, briefly mentioning Wikipedia as a site devoted to "the art of imparting knowledge"
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Impact of the Internet surfing on reading practices and choices - 0 views

  • Surfing the Internet has become a daily routine of the new generation.
  • The present generation especially the college students are well versed with the new technologies and their application in present networked society
  • Now the potential reader can access and browse the online information from the whole web while using his/her terminal at home.
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  • The hypertext and hypermedia technologies allow the e-readers to go from one page to another by selecting links in various directions popularly known as surfing
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    The internet brings a wider scope of reading material.
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Urban Dictionary: wikisurfing - 0 views

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    I know this is totally not a valid source, but I like it to point out that socially this sort of "research for fun" attitude is becoming more prevalent.
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