Social Media's Effect on Learning - Digits - WSJ - The Diigo Meta page

• 02 Dec 09
  

  Sharon Scinicariello

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• 08 Sep 09
  

  Lorie Shuck

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  • Studies on infant brains have shown that knowledge retention is only possible when accompanied with personal interaction or activity, but this becomes even more important as people get older. Adults must be socially stimulated to learn
• 07 Sep 09
  

  Tom March

  Social media may seem, at times, to be a flurry of meaningless updates and marketing schemes, but researchers are figuring out how the interaction it spurs can stimulate brain activity.

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• 04 Sep 09
  

  Elizabeth Koh

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• 03 Sep 09
  

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• 02 Sep 09
  

  Phil Taylor

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  • Why were these students so successful? They interacted with language tools in the same way they might in a social-media environment — by their own free will and with high interaction, instead of just reading, watching or listening.
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• 01 Sep 09
  

  Maggie Verster

  Social media may seem, at times, to be a flurry of meaningless updates and marketing schemes, but researchers are figuring out how the interaction it spurs can stimulate brain activity.

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• 19 Aug 09
  

  Wilna Smith

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• 05 Aug 09
  

  Elysio Soares

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• 04 Aug 09
  

  Ronda Wery

  Social media may seem, at times, to be a flurry of meaningless updates and marketing schemes, but researchers are figuring out how the interaction it spurs can stimulate brain activity.

  social_media attention

  • Social media may seem, at times, to be a flurry of meaningless updates and marketing schemes, but researchers are figuring out how the interaction it spurs can stimulate brain activity.
  • “We’ve evolved to interact with the world,” said Patricia Kuhl, a University of Washington professor and co-author of a recent study on social learning. “We did not evolve to lie in front of a flat screen and just watch it,” even if what it’s spewing at us is informative or entertaining. One reason for this is that the social part of the brain affects which computational skills a person picks up.
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  • • Why were these students so successful? They interacted with language tools in the same way they might in a social-media environment — by their own free will and with high interaction, instead of just reading, watching or listening.

    • “Bilingual people aren’t cognitively smarter, but they are more cognitively flexible,” she added. “Practice at constant switching improves an aspect of their cognitive abilities. They become more facile at adjusting to new situations and inventing new situations.”

      
      

      This is much like what people do when they’re updating their Twitter status, instant-messaging friends, or answering text messages and emails while they’re doing something else. Dr. Kuhl said this multitasking, where people are stimulating new patterns of sequential processing, could then reap the same benefits as bilingualism.

• 03 Aug 09
  

  Andrew Graff

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  Mandy Lindgren

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  • knowledge retention is only possible when accompanied with personal interaction or activity
  • Adults must be socially stimulated to learn
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  Jason K

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  Reuven Werber

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• 31 Jul 09
  

  Rafael Parente

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  Alyssa Ruesch

  WSJ summary of a study on social media and learning. Showed that children may understand sounds of languages more than with traditional learning because of interaction with media.

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• 30 Jul 09
  

  Jon Aston

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  Joan Vinall-Cox

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  Howard Rheingold

  Social media may seem, at times, to be a flurry of meaningless updates and marketing schemes, but researchers are figuring out how the interaction it spurs can stimulate brain activity.

  social_media attention

  • Social media may seem, at times, to be a flurry of meaningless updates and marketing schemes, but researchers are figuring out how the interaction it spurs can stimulate brain activity.
  • “We’ve evolved to interact with the world,” said Patricia Kuhl, a University of Washington professor and co-author of a recent study on social learning. “We did not evolve to lie in front of a flat screen and just watch it,” even if what it’s spewing at us is informative or entertaining. One reason for this is that the social part of the brain affects which computational skills a person picks up.
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  • • Why were these students so successful? They interacted with language tools in the same way they might in a social-media environment — by their own free will and with high interaction, instead of just reading, watching or listening.

    • “Bilingual people aren’t cognitively smarter, but they are more cognitively flexible,” she added. “Practice at constant switching improves an aspect of their cognitive abilities. They become more facile at adjusting to new situations and inventing new situations.”

      
      

      This is much like what people do when they’re updating their Twitter status, instant-messaging friends, or answering text messages and emails while they’re doing something else. Dr. Kuhl said this multitasking, where people are stimulating new patterns of sequential processing, could then reap the same benefits as bilingualism.

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  Laura Deisley

  brain research learning socialmedia

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  Roger Zuidema

  education trends socialmedia learning

  • figuring out how the interaction it spurs can stimulate brain activity.
  • “We did not evolve to lie in front of a flat screen and just watch it,”
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  • • Why were these students so successful? They interacted with language tools in the same way they might in a social-media environment — by their own free will and with high interaction, instead of just reading, watching or listening.

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