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• 08 Oct 13
  

  Yago Quintana

  This explains how in the Digital age social media and the internet have affected literacy and critical thinking.

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  • Reading for pleasure, which has declined among young people in recent decades, enhances thinking and engages the imagination in a way that visual media such as video games and television do not, Greenfield said.
• 11 Sep 13
  

  Steven Oreskovich

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  • "As students spend more time with visual media and less time with print, evaluation methods that include visual media will give a better picture of what they actually know," said Greenfield, who has been using films in her classes since the 1970s.

     

     

     

    "By using more visual media, students will process information better," she said. "However, most visual media are real-time media that do not allow time for reflection, analysis or imagination — those do not get developed by real-time media such as television or video games. Technology is not a panacea in education, because of the skills that are being lost.

     

     

     

    "Studies show that reading develops imagination, induction, reflection and critical thinking, as well as vocabulary," Greenfield said. "Reading for pleasure is the key to developing these skills. Students today have more visual literacy and less print literacy. Many students do not read for pleasure and have not for decades."
• 20 May 13
  

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  • "Reading for pleasure is the key to developing these skills. Students today have more visual literacy and less print literacy. Many students do not read for pleasure and have not for decades."
• 12 Mar 13
  

  jose zamora
  • most visual media are real-time media that do not allow time for reflection, analysis or imagination
  • Studies show that reading develops imagination, induction, reflection and critical thinking, as well as vocabulary
  • Reading for pleasure is the key to developing these skills.
  • Among the studies Greenfield analyzed was a classroom study showing that students who were given access to the Internet during class and were encouraged to use it during lectures did not process what the speaker said as well as students who did not have Internet access. When students were tested after class lectures, those who did not have Internet access performed better than those who did.

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• 12 Feb 13
  

  Josh Collin
  • "Studies show that reading develops imagination, induction, reflection and critical thinking, as well as vocabulary," Greenfield said. "Reading for pleasure is the key to developing these skills. Students today have more visual literacy and less print literacy. Many students do not read for pleasure and have not for decades."
  • Among the studies Greenfield analyzed was a classroom study showing that students who were given access to the Internet during class and were encouraged to use it during lectures did not process what the speaker said as well as students who did not have Internet access. When students were tested after class lectures, those who did not have Internet access performed better than those who did.
  • Another study Greenfield analyzed found that college students who watched "CNN Headline News" with just the news anchor on screen and without the "news crawl" across the bottom of the screen remembered significantly more facts from the televised broadcast than those who watched it with the distraction of the crawling text and with additional stock market and weather information on the screen.

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  • As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined
  • Reading for pleasure, which has declined among young people in recent decades, enhances thinking and engages the imagination in a way that visual media such as video games and television do not, Greenfield said.
  • Parents should encourage their children to read and should read to their young children, she said.
  • Among the studies Greenfield analyzed was a classroom study showing that students who were given access to the Internet during class and were encouraged to use it during lectures did not process what the speaker said as well as students who did not have Internet access. When students were tested after class lectures, those who did not have Internet access performed better than those who did.
  • "Wiring classrooms for Internet access does not enhance learning,"
  • Another study Greenfield analyzed found that college students who watched "CNN Headline News" with just the news anchor on screen and without the "news crawl" across the bottom of the screen remembered significantly more facts
  • multi-tasking "prevents people from getting a deeper understanding of information,"

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• 18 Sep 12
  

  Irina Uk

  As visual literacy improves, critical thinking declines. There is a need for mediums that require reflection, reading and writing to promote critical thinking skills.

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• 25 Mar 09
  

  Lorraine Orenchuk

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  Terri Johnson

  Schools should make more effort to test students using visual media, she said, by asking them to prepare PowerPoint presentations, for example.

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  • Schools should make more effort to test students using visual media, she said, by asking them to prepare PowerPoint presentations, for example.

    • Really, PowerPoint? I'm not sure if I agree that that is the best way to assess using visual media. It isn't interactive.
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  • most visual media are real-time media that do not allow time for reflection, analysis or imagination

    • So, this research is not describing technology that is collaborative in nature. I wonder if the data would be different if web 2.0 tools were taken into account.
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  • Parents should encourage their children to read and should read to their young children, she said.

    • Agreed! Definitely should read more!
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  • Visual intelligence has been rising globally for 50 years
  • Raven's Progressive Matrices, went steadily down with age and declined substantially from age 25 to 65.
  • In a 1992 study, visual IQ stayed almost flat from age 25 to 65,

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• 05 Feb 09
  

  Jose Erigleidson

  As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined, while our visual skills have improved, according to research by Patricia Greenfield, UCLA distinguished professor of psychology and director o

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  • Reading for pleasure, which has declined among young people in recent decades, enhances thinking and engages the imagination in a way that visual media such as video games and television do not, Greenfield said
  • "No one medium is good for everything," Greenfield said. "If we want to develop a variety of skills, we need a balanced media diet. Each medium has costs and benefits in terms of what skills each develops."
  • Schools should make more effort to test students using visual media, she said, by asking them to prepare PowerPoint presentations, for example.

     

     

     

    "As students spend more time with visual media and less time with print, evaluation methods that include visual media will give a better picture of what they actually know,"
  • "By using more visual media, students will process information better," she said. "However, most visual media are real-time media that do not allow time for reflection, analysis or imagination —

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• 28 Jan 09
  

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  Terri Johnson on 2009-03-25
  Really, PowerPoint? I'm not sure if I agree that that is the best way to assess using visual media. It isn't interactive.
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  Terri Johnson on 2009-03-25
  So, this research is not describing technology that is collaborative in nature. I wonder if the data would be different if web 2.0 tools were taken into account.
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  Terri Johnson on 2009-03-25
  Agreed! Definitely should read more!

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  Sean Nash on 2009-03-25
  Yeah... because it is about the tool... not the instructional goal in mind.

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