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brookerobinson

PLOS ONE: Practicing a Musical Instrument in Childhood is Associated with Enhanced Verb... - 0 views

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music instrument childhood

shared by brookerobinson on 27 Jun 14 - Cached
  • Children who received at least three years (M = 4.6 years) of instrumental music training outperformed their control counterparts on two outcomes closely related to music (auditory discrimination abilities and fine motor skills) and on two outcomes distantly related to music (vocabulary and nonverbal reasoning skills). Duration of training also predicted these outcomes. Contrary to previous research, instrumental music training was not associated with heightened spatial skills, phonemic awareness, or mathematical abilities
brookerobinson

Personality Secrets in Your Mp3 Player - PsyBlog - 0 views

www.spring.org.uk/...secrets-in-your-mp3-player.php

psychology music

shared by brookerobinson on 27 Jun 14 - Cached
  • Of the five traits, it was a person’s openness to experience that was best communicated by their top 10 list of songs, followed by extraversion and emotional stability
lilymg

Police brutality in the iPhone era :: Cover :: Philadelphia City Paper - 0 views

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police brutality social media internet

shared by lilymg on 26 Jun 14 - No Cached
    • lilymg
      lilymg on 26 Jun 14
       
      Opposing view: Claims that police afraid to act because of "retribution"
    • lilymg
      lilymg on 26 Jun 14
       
      Can you be arrested for videotaping? Depends on state?
  • The video was uploaded a day later and viewed more than 200,000 times. Within a week, Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey announced Josey’s firing and the DA dropped disorderly conduct charges against Guzman
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    • lilymg
      lilymg on 26 Jun 14
       
      Sometimes video evidence can genuinely help against cases involving brutality 
  • a phenomenal 6.7 million times.
    • lilymg
      lilymg on 26 Jun 14
       
      Videos posted online can be seen by everyone, once videos go viral they can gain an incredible amount of views and attention
  • And YouTube and social media have democratized the distribution of video, just as the camcorder and, subsequently, the cameraphone revolutionized their recording.
    • lilymg
      lilymg on 26 Jun 14
       
      Youtube is also a useful platform for posting videos of police violence
  • National Fraternal Order of Police executive director Jim Pasco has warned USA Today that “the proliferation of cheap video equipment … has had a chilling effect on some officers, who are now afraid to act for fear of retribution by video.”
  • police in Philly and elsewhere have been known to arrest citizen videographers and destroy cameras
braxtondn

Seventeen and Vogue Magazine Have Issues, Like Body Image Issues | Autostraddle - 0 views

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vogue Seveneteen magazines self-image teens effects

shared by braxtondn on 26 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • the photoshopped images and super-skinny smiling blondes of popular teen magazines
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      The "ideal" look based off of new media.
  • “We know that Photoshop can be very harmful to girls because they think they have to look like these images. But it’s not even real, it’s Photoshop. So it’s kind of impossible to look like that in real life.
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      People are, literally, trying to become something that isn't real. Nobody looks exactly the way people see them on tv or magazines. Its either makeup or photoshop.
  • Magazines, as mentioned above, play a hugely important role in the development and sustaining of girls’ and women’s self-images. They’re also hugely prevalent pieces of our culture, with Vogue and Seventeen leading the way because of their sheer popularity and branding power
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      Because of the popularity between these two magazines and the amount of people that read them. I would think that they would help try to defend people's self-image/body-image by publishing covers with teens of all sizes. 
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  • ad of obesity, citing a recent trip to Minnesota where  she said she could “only kindly de
  • Photoshop to make people “look their best,” and condemned Americans for worrying too much over anorexia inste
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      Obesity is just as serious as anorexia; but the idea that the media is only focusing/ showing off skinny girls, doesn't really help put an emphasis on both. Weight is a big issue with the media, but the media needs to realize that people come in different shapes. ANother thing is that the effect that the media is having on people's body-image, mixed with the bullying on social medias, is just causing the media to be a horrible place to come to when it comes to human interaction and "ideals". 
  • scribe most of the people I saw as little houses.”
braxtondn

Teen takes on Seventeen, says magazine contributes to body image issues | Fox News - 0 views

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shared by braxtondn on 26 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Bluhm realized that the images she saw in the iconic monthly magazine did not represent real adolescent females, and contributed to unattainable ideals.
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      The ideal to be "pretty" has made pretty girls become ugly. They would rather take pills, and get plastic surgery instead of being thankful of the unique skin that they were born in. The ideal to be "pretty" doesn't make them any prettier than what they already are. They just become fake.
braxtondn

How the Media Affects the Self Esteem and Body Image of Young Girls | Divine Caroline - 0 views

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media self-esteem body image

shared by braxtondn on 26 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • The medias harmful affect on the self body image and self esteem of young girls has brought about some of these three damaging effects: eating disorders, mental depression, and physical depression.
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      It is interesting and sad knowing that new media has this affect on young teens. Something should be done in order to help prevent such negative affect. The media needs to recognize that everybody will come in different shapes and sizes, instead of just focusing on one specific image.
  • “Women may directly model unhealthy eating habits presented in the media, such as fasting or purging, because the media-portrayed thin ideal body type is related to eating pathology”(Stice, Schupak-Neuberg, Shaw & Stein, 1994)
  • In Allie Kovar’s article, Effects of the Media on Body Image, she mentions that “the national eating disorder Association (2006) reports that in the past 70 years national rates of incidences of all eating disorders have dramatically increased across the board . . . Bulimia in women between the ages of 10 to 39 has more than tripled.” (Kovar, 1).
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      The media's "thin ideal' is causing young teens to feel so poorly about themselves that it is causing more women to become diagnosed with eating disorders. There is no reason that the media should be having that much of an affect on teens that it is tripling the amount of eating disorders. The media ( actresses, models, and celebrities) should be looked upon by their success not by their body image.
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  • “If children grow up seeing thin women in advertisements, on television, and in film they accept this as reality and try to imitate their appearance and their actions”(Nature vs. Nurture, Shea, 1).
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      THis is very true. Parents can stop this by controlling what their children can and can't watch. THere are so many things that parents can do to help boost their child's self-esteem also, they just need to try harder so that the media doesn't win.
  • “The ideal female has become thinner while the average American woman has become heavier…”(Domil, 2).
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      Whats acceptable to the world is not acceptable to the media. Whats more important though? All that should matter is what each person thinks about themselves. Media is just negatively effecting society's image
  • The media is only going to get worse and put more pressure on the self body image of how it should “ideally” look
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      The media is like an annoying bug that will never go away. We have to be stronger than what the media wants us to be and be above the media's influence.
kahn_artist

hinder-enhance.pdf - 3 views

www.sjsu.edu/...hinder-enhance.pdf

knowledge internet websurfing

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  • kinseyem on 24 Jun 14
     
    Article by Mei Yeung-Fang discussing pros and cons of how the internet effects learning and teaching.
  • kahn_artist on 26 Jun 14
     
    Note to self to read later. Title leads me to believe I could work this into my argument on how Wikipedia encourages knowledge.
andhearsonars

Pinterest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/Pinterest

#pinterest

shared by andhearsonars on 26 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Usage
  • personalized media platform
  • The website has proven especially popular among women.
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  • Pinboards can be used by educators to plan lessons. Teachers can pin sites for later referral. Students can pin and organize sources and collaborate on projects
  • Pinterest does not generate its own content; rather, it draws from many resources around the web and compiles them in one convenient location for users. By transferring information from restricted access to a more open public sphere, information transaction costs have decreased drastically.
  • By only being shown items users are comfortable with, users are unexposed to foreign ideas. Many users are unaware of the personalization.
  • andhearsonars on 26 Jun 14
     
    [Only concerned with the "Usage" section]
braxtondn

USATODAY.com - Do thin models warp girls' body image? - 0 views

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models magazines self-image media

shared by braxtondn on 26 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • "We have done studies of grade-school girls, and even in grade 1, girls think the culture is telling them that they should model themselves after celebrities who are svelte, beautiful and sexy."
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      Being sexy doesn't mean you have to be skinny. As long as the skin you're in makes you feel sexy and beautiful thats all that should matter. People don't need advice from a celebrity, who also struggled with their body image, to tell them that in order to be considered sexy by the media and today's society, you have to be skinny.
  • Some girls can reject that image, but it's a small percentage: 18% in Murnen's research
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      That is a shame that only 18% are unaffected by media's new idea of an acceptable look. They must either have a high self-esteem or do not interact with the media as much as the other 82%.
  • those who were exposed to the most fashion magazines were more likely to suffer from poor body images.
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      This shows that magazines such as Seventeen and Vogue are held responsible for the negative image that they are putting into teens' mind. They do not need to be skinny enough to put on a magazine cover, they need to accept the skin they are in and show it.
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  • t's not surprising that women want to be slender and beautiful, because as a society "we know more about women who look good than we know about women who do good," says Audrey Brashich, a former teen model and author of All Made Up: A Girl's Guide to Seeing Through Celebrity Hype and Celebrating Real Beauty.
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      Hearing this from a teen model who was probably in the 18% of young women who weren't effected by the media, is amazing because she knows what is most important. Although looks play a major part in being successful, the hard work is more important. Media is taking away the important concept and forcing a lesser concept to become the main focus.
andhearsonars

Pinterest as a learning tool: Do the two compute? | ZDNet - 0 views

www.zdnet.com/...16100

#pinterest #education_tool #learning #teaching

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  • bookmarking
  • similar to the blog-roll site Tumblr but on a more organised and structured platform, and focused purely on visual content
  • visual appeal
andhearsonars

School Systems Blog - Four Ways to Use Pinterest in Education - 1 views

www.pearsonschoolsystems.com/blog

#pinterest #education_tool

shared by andhearsonars on 26 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Pins are also shared and searchable, which makes Pinterest a wonderful resource for visual information.
  • specific theme
  • original source, where you may find more inspiration
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  • organizing
  • social networking
  • collaborate
  • set up boards that allow multiple people to pin
  • categorizing
  • tutorials
  • write a note to yourself about the pin so you will remember exactly why you chose it
  • organize resources for presentations, projects, essays
  • visual journal
braxtondn

7 Telltale Signs Social Media Is Killing Your Self-Esteem | Alternet - 1 views

www.alternet.org/...media-killing-your-self-esteem

media self-image

shared by braxtondn on 26 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Yet what often begins as a harmless virtual habit for some can fast-track into a damaging, narcissism-fueled habit which negatively impacts our self-worth and the way we perceive others
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      Can this be fixed? Does it have to have such a negative impact? Is it really the media or the people on the social networks that are causing the media to have this kind of effect on people
  • Of 298 users, 50 percent said social media made their lives and their self-esteem worse.
  • According to psychotherapist Sherrie Campbell, social media can give us a false sense of belonging and connecting that is not built on real-life exchanges. This makes it increasingly easy to lose oneself to cyberspace connections and give them more weight than they deserve
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      People go on the social medias knowing what to expect. Its up to the person to control whether or not to let the things they see, effect their lifestyle or what they thick of themselves. There are things on many social networks that allow people to edit their photos so they can loo a certain way, in order for it to be acceptable to society and the media. This is another reason how the media is becoming harmful to self-image.
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  • “When we look to social media, we end up comparing ourselves to what we see which can lower our self-esteem. On social media, everyone’s life looks perfect but you’re only seeing a snapshot of reality. We can be whoever we want to be in social media and if we take what we see literally then it’s possible that we can feel we are falling short in life,” Campbell told AlterNe
  • Women who spent longer periods of time on Facebook had a higher incidence of "appearance-focused behavior" (such as anorexia) and were more anxious and body conscience overall. What's more, 20 minutes on social media was enough to contribute to a user’s weight and shape concerns
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      It is amazing how only 20 mins on a social network can have that effect on one's life.  People are more focused on trying to be accepted into society that they will let a social networks and media tell them how to eat, look, and live.
  • It is important to remember that what you are viewing is only a small sliver of someone’s life, which for the most part, is heavily embellished and mostly rooted in fantasy. When such images are starting to poison the way you look at your own life it may be time to step away from the screen.
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      This is one way to fix the effects that media has over people's self image. Just because you see models looking all glamorous on the tv screens, instagram posts, Facebook, or magazine covers, doesn't mean that their life is technically better than your own.
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