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Sean McHugh

Open University research explodes myth of 'digital native' - 0 views

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education digital_natives Prensky age divide research technology

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  • here are clear differences between older people and younger in their use of technology, there’s no evidence of a clear break between two separate populations.
  • So Prensky was right the first time – there really is digital native generation? No, certainly not – and that’s what’s important about this study. It shows that while those differences exist, they are not lined up on each side of any kind of well-defined discontinuity. The change is gradual, age group to age group. The researchers regard their results as confirming those who have doubted the existence of a coherent ‘net generation’. “We found no evidence for any discontinuity in technology use around the age of 30 as would be predicted by the Net Generation and Digital Natives hypothesis," says the report. What the reseachers do find interesting and worthy of further study is the correlation – which is independent of age -- between attitudes to technology and approaches to studying. In short, students who more readily use technology for their studies are more likely than others to be deeply engaged with their work. “Those students who had more positive attitudes to technology were more likely to adopt a deep approach to studying, more likely to adopt a strategic approach to studying and less likely to adopt a surface approach to studying.”
  • Sean McHugh on 16 Mar 13
     
    So Prensky was right the first time - there really is digital native generation? No, certainly not - and that's what's important about this study. It shows that while those differences exist, they are not lined up on each side of any kind of well-defined discontinuity. The change is gradual, age group to age group. The researchers regard their results as confirming those who have doubted the existence of a coherent 'net generation'. "We found no evidence for any discontinuity in technology use around the age of 30 as would be predicted by the Net Generation and Digital Natives hypothesis," says the report. What the reseachers do find interesting and worthy of further study is the correlation - which is independent of age -- between attitudes to technology and approaches to studying. In short, students who more readily use technology for their studies are more likely than others to be deeply engaged with their work. "Those students who had more positive attitudes to technology were more likely to adopt a deep approach to studying, more likely to adopt a strategic approach to studying and less likely to adopt a surface approach to studying."
Sean McHugh

BBC News - 'Computer games keep me mentally active' - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-21116544

games learning

shared by Sean McHugh on 04 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Sean McHugh on 04 Mar 13
     
    It is predicted that by the end of this year, female gamers will outnumber men for the first time. However computer games are also increasingly being seen as a way for older people to keep mentally active.
Louise Phinney

THE FUTURE OF MOBILE LEARNING | eCampus Students - 0 views

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future

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  • Louise Phinney on 02 Jun 13
     
    As mobile technology continues to permeate every facet of society, the mantra of today's youth seems to be "Make it Mobile!" With this influx of technology it will be interesting to see how the classroom looks 5, 10, 15 years down the road. Do you have any predictions?
James Dalziel

Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals - 0 views

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Grit Perseverance Long term goals UPenn UWCSEA Profile Resilience

shared by James Dalziel on 08 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • James Dalziel on 08 Feb 13
     
    The importance of intellectual talent to achievement in all professional domains is well established, but less is known about other individual differences that predict success. The authors tested the importance of 1noncognitive trait: grit. Drive and energy in childhood are more predictive of success, if not creativity, than is IQ or some other more domain-specific ability" (p. 293)
Cameron Hunter

BBC World Service - More Or Less, Predicting L'Aquila Earthquake: is it right to blame ... - 3 views

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bbc earthquake science prediction statistics public maths mathematics TOK

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  • Cameron Hunter on 27 Oct 12
     
    Good TOK Maths/science/ issue.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Future Work Skills 2020 - 0 views

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21stcenturyliteracy 21stCenturySkills learning future trends technology skills

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 02 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 02 Oct 11
     
    Some interesting skills that are predicted to be required in 2020. 
Louise Phinney

R.I.P. handwriting… | Ben Grundy: There's a World Out There - 0 views

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handwriting

shared by Louise Phinney on 09 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 09 Mar 12
     
    Blog post from CIS teacher Ben Grundy about handwriting's slow demise. "With the continual development of technology features such as predictive text, autocorrect and speech recognition, along with the rapidly developing field of mobile technology giving us access to these tools whenever we need to 'write', it's safe to say that we no longer need to handwrite. Well, at least not in length."
  • Louise Phinney on 10 Mar 12
     
    Interesting article - The age of teaching handwriting is finished!
Keri-Lee Beasley

How Google Is Changing The Way We Think - 0 views

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technology learning google thinking skills

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 27 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • According to Small’s research, using a search engine increased activity in the regions of the brain dealing with decision making, complex reasoning and vision. Also, the more-experienced Internet users exhibited more than twice as much brain activity as the less-experienced subjects, leading Small to predict that the more we search, the stronger the brain’s reaction to searching.
  • One influential study, produced by researchers at Columbia, Harvard and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, found that people were less likely to remember a piece of trivia when they had access to the Internet. Instead, they were more likely to remember where the information had been saved.
  • “The Internet has become a primary form of external or transactive memory, where information is stored collectively outside ourselves,” the researchers concluded.
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