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  "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 of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles."

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  • ScienceDaily (Jan. 29, 2009) — 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 of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles.
  • 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 of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles.
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  • • ScienceDaily (Jan. 29, 2009) — 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 of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles.
    • ScienceDaily (Jan. 29, 2009) — 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 of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles.
    • ScienceDaily (Jan. 29, 2009) — 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 of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles.
    • ScienceDaily (Jan. 29, 2009) — 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 of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles.
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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
  • 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."
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  • "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
  • "Wiring classrooms for Internet access does not enhance learning," Greenfield
    said.
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  • • These and other studies show that multi-tasking "prevents people from getting a
      deeper understanding of information," Greenfield said.
    • Greenfield believes much of this change is related to our increased use of
      technology, as well as other factors, including increased levels of formal
      education, improved nutrition, smaller families and increased societal
      complexity.
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  • 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 of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles
  • How much should schools use new media, versus older techniques such as reading and classroom discussion?
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  • • we need a balanced media diet. Each medium has costs and benefits in terms of what skills each develops."
    • 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,
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • These and other studies show that multi-tasking "prevents people from getting a deeper understanding of information," Greenfield said.
    • Yet, for certain tasks, divided attention is important, she added
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  • How much should schools use new media, versus older techniques such as
    reading and classroom discussion?

• 24 Apr 09
  

  Barbara Pittman
  • "If you're a pilot, you need to be able to monitor multiple instruments at the same time. If you're a cab driver, you need to pay attention to multiple events at the same time. If you're in the military, you need to multi-task too," she said. "On the other hand, if you're trying to solve a complex problem, you need sustained concentration. If you are doing a task that requires deep and sustained thought, multi-tasking is detrimental."

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      Barbara Pittman on 2009-04-24

      Pilots are not solving complex problems as they monitor multiple instruments AND fly at the same time? I think that guy that landed on the Hudson was able to multitask and then focus when he needed to focus, eh?
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  • How much should schools use new media, versus older techniques such as reading and classroom discussion?
  • "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."
• 20 Apr 09
  

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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,
  • "Studies show that reading develops imagination, induction, reflection and critical thinking, as well as vocabulary,"
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  • • Students today have more visual literacy and less print literacy.
    • 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.

      
      

      These and other studies show that multi-tasking "prevents people from getting a deeper understanding of information," Greenfield said.

    • More than 85 percent of video games contain violence, one study found, and multiple studies of violent media games have shown that they can produce many negative effects, including aggressive behavior and desensitization to real-life violence
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  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 of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles.
  
  Learners have changed as a result of their exposure to technology, says Greenfield, who analyzed more than 50 studies on learning and technology, including research on multi-tasking and the use of computers, the Internet and video games. Her research was published this month in the journal Science.

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• 08 Feb 09
  

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  In another study, video game skills were a better predictor of surgeons' success in performing laparoscopic surgery than actual laparoscopic surgery experience. In laparoscopic surgery, a surgeon makes a small incision in a patient and inserts a viewing t

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

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      Penny C on 2009-02-05

      This is new?
      Of course parents should do this. It has nothing to do with technology. Just read.
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      George Haines on 2009-04-23

      I think it does have to do with technology. She is suggesting that parents read to their kids INSTEAD of letting them go online. There is only so much time in the day. Every 30 minutes a kid spends on Facebook is 30 minutes they aren't spending reading- or talking to their parents about school, or building a birdhouse with their sister, etc.
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  More "tech is making us bad" rhetoric. Technology doesn't kill critical thinking, people kill critical thinking.

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    • More than 85 percent of video games contain violence, one study found, and multiple studies of violent media games have shown that they can produce many negative effects, including aggressive behavior and desensitization to real-life violence, Greenfield said in summarizing the findings.

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        Will Richardson on 2009-02-04

        This really has nothing to do with the premise other than to attempt to say that video games aren't worthy of study.
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  ScienceDaily (Jan. 29, 2009) — 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 of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles.

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• 03 Feb 09
  

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  This certainly makes a case for teachers needing to guide and direct students' use of technology.

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      Clay Burell on 2009-02-03

      Rebuttal # 2: http://education.change.org/blog/view/tutorial_two_uses_of_technology_to_improve_literacy_and_critical_thinking
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      Clay Burell on 2009-02-03

      Refutation 1: A rant, but a reasonable one: http://education.change.org/blog/view/snark_attack_ucla_research_dissing_technology_bombs
      
      Without paying to read the actual research, it's hard to know whom to criticize here. But why pay for research in the age of information "that wants to be free"?
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        Clay Burell on 2009-02-24

        Since I started the rant about this post, let me make clear that the culprit is not Greenfield - except insofar as she published her taxpayer-funded research in Science, which charges $15 to read it, and thus left herself at the mercy of tripe like this, which gets more Google-juice and has a higher Alexa ranking than Science - it's the writer of this article. Apparently the research is much more nuanced, and this summary misrepresents it horribly.
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  "Wiring classrooms for Internet access does not enhance learning," Greenfield said.
  
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• 01 Feb 09
  

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  I think this post or article is incredibly flawed and lacks a lot of basis for the positions being advicated, but if you have a Diigo account, it is a great example of participatory nature of the internet. You can leave a note for other Diigo users. It would be a fantastic way for students to read something, include their notes, respond to each other, and discuss in class the next day.

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  • "Wiring classrooms for Internet access does not enhance learning," Greenfield said.
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  Some holes in this study, I think, but interesting for the Diigo challenges.

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  She loses me when she supports her argument for testing students using visual media by getting them to do a powerpoint presentation.
  
  Good use of sticky notes to discuss the article.

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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
  • 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."
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  "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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  Learners have changed as a result of their exposure to technology, says
  Greenfield, who analyzed more than 50 studies on learning and technology,
  including research on multi-tasking and the use of computers, the Internet and
  video games. Her research was published this month in the journal Science.
  
  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.
  
  How much should schools use new media, versus older techniques such as
  reading and classroom discussion?
  
  "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.

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      Michael Walker on 2009-01-30

      Use this quote as evidence that she has no idea what she's talking about.
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      Corvida Raven on 2009-01-30

      I agree Michael! My entire face screwed up when I read this.
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        Nele Noppe on 2009-02-02

        Word. Why do people keep considering powerpoint presentations the only 'serious' way to visualize information? Even when images are used in pp's, it's just the digital equivalent of showing the audience a magazine clipping.
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        Penny C on 2009-02-05

        I find that many teachers don't know how to use powerpoint. Too many words and please stop reading from the slides!

  • 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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      Michael Walker on 2009-01-30

      This statement makes me think she doesn't understand what technology should be used for.
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  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 of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles.
  
  Learners have changed as a result of their exposure to technology, says Greenfield, who analyzed more than 50 studies on learning and technology, including research on multi-tasking and the use of computers, the Internet and video games. Her research was published this month in the journal Science.
  

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  Stephanie Sandifer on 2009-01-29
  Too many sweeping generalizations and no explanation of how the studies were conducted (methodology). This article may be severely misused by administrators to justify cutting edtech budgets and reducing emphasis on use of tech in classroom instruction. Rather than allowing this kind of "research" to be published, we should be finding ways to teach students how to effectively use technology in their learning so that it enhances and strengthens their comprehension and critical-thinking skills.
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  Clay Burell on 2009-02-03
  Rebuttal # 2: http://education.change.org/blog/view/tutorial_two_uses_of_technology_to_improve_literacy_and_critical_thinking
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  Clay Burell on 2009-02-03
  Refutation 1: A rant, but a reasonable one: http://education.change.org/blog/view/snark_attack_ucla_research_dissing_technology_bombs
  
  Without paying to read the actual research, it's hard to know whom to criticize here. But why pay for research in the age of information "that wants to be free"?
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  Clay Burell on 2009-02-24
  Since I started the rant about this post, let me make clear that the culprit is not Greenfield - except insofar as she published her taxpayer-funded research in Science, which charges $15 to read it, and thus left herself at the mercy of tripe like this, which gets more Google-juice and has a higher Alexa ranking than Science - it's the writer of this article. Apparently the research is much more nuanced, and this summary misrepresents it horribly.
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  Barbara Pittman on 2009-04-24
  I see that she mentions TV as not enhancing thinking or engaging viewers (and I don't like the passive term viewer, either), but she doesn't mention fllm, and I wonder if she thinks that one cannot be engaged or come away from a great film thinking. I guess I would add plays to that list also. One can participate in a visual medium, just as one participates in reading a novel. Do we just go to art museums to stand in slack-jawed awe and ignorance? Give me a break.
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  Corvida Raven on 2009-01-30
  I agree. I think this is bull anyway. I spend a ton of time in my RSS feeds and on Twitter reading tons of articles for pleasure. I've also purchased 3 books in the past two weeks and I'm on the 2nd one, waiting for the third one.
  
  Half the stuff I read is text based, not video or images. Who the hell did the research for this article?!
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  Stephanie Sandifer on 2009-01-29
  So students can't read for pleasure on the internet? What about fanficiton websites, blogs, message forums (on personal interests), and other text-based online materials? Not everything seen on screen is visual or motion-based.
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  Penny C on 2009-02-05
  I find that many teachers don't know how to use powerpoint. Too many words and please stop reading from the slides!
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  Nele Noppe on 2009-02-02
  Word. Why do people keep considering powerpoint presentations the only 'serious' way to visualize information? Even when images are used in pp's, it's just the digital equivalent of showing the audience a magazine clipping.
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  Corvida Raven on 2009-01-30
  I agree Michael! My entire face screwed up when I read this.
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  Michael Walker on 2009-01-30
  Use this quote as evidence that she has no idea what she's talking about.
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  Michael Walker on 2009-01-30
  This statement makes me think she doesn't understand what technology should be used for.
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  George Haines on 2009-04-23
  I think it does have to do with technology. She is suggesting that parents read to their kids INSTEAD of letting them go online. There is only so much time in the day. Every 30 minutes a kid spends on Facebook is 30 minutes they aren't spending reading- or talking to their parents about school, or building a birdhouse with their sister, etc.
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  Penny C on 2009-02-05
  This is new?
  Of course parents should do this. It has nothing to do with technology. Just read.
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  Chris Lott on 2009-02-04
  Is this any different than the books and magazines I used to read while my high school teachers were droning on and expecting nothing more than passive presence?
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  Frances DiDavide on 2009-01-29
  While I agree that students need to be trained, I also know that if I am on the internet I am not paying attention to a speaker. I don't think this is a technology problem, if I was looking at a book while listening to a lecture I would not get much from it.
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  Stephanie Sandifer on 2009-01-29
  Were they only given access and encouraged, or were they trained in effective use of the tools to enhance the lectures? How were they tested for processing? By factual recall? How does factual recall = critical thinking? UGH!!!!!
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  Barbara Pittman on 2009-04-24
  Pilots are not solving complex problems as they monitor multiple instruments AND fly at the same time? I think that guy that landed on the Hudson was able to multitask and then focus when he needed to focus, eh?
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  Will Richardson on 2009-02-04
  This really has nothing to do with the premise other than to attempt to say that video games aren't worthy of study.

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  Laura Williams on 2009-02-06
  Where the students given a task or purpose for using the internet during the class? Or just told to go for it? Had this been modeled and taught before?
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  Chris Sharples on 2009-02-09
  this is sooo out of date...

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