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• 25 Mar 09
  

  Sean Nash
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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.

  reference thinking_skills Research edtech

  • 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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      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.
  • most visual media are real-time media that do not allow time for reflection, analysis or imagination

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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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  • • Parents should encourage their children to read and should read to their young children, she said.

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        Terri Johnson on 2009-03-25

        Agreed! Definitely should read more!
    • 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,
• 02 Feb 09
  

  Gianto Widianto
• 29 Jan 09
  

  julianna07 julianna07

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  adina sullivan

  ucla critical_thinking visual_learning article research multi-tasking

  • 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."
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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.

      
      

       

      
      

      "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 —
• 28 Jan 09
  

  Kyle James

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  Isabelle Jones

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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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