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How the Google generation thinks differently - Times Online
London Knowledge Lab Research on internet's impact on pupil's critical and meta-cognitive skills
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Rose Luckin, Professor of Learner- Centred Design at the London Knowledge Lab
and a visiting professor at the University of Sussex, is working on a study
examining the internet's impact on pupils' critical and meta-cognitive
skills. “The worrying view coming through is that students are lacking in
reflective awareness,” she says. “Technology makes it easy for them to
collate information, but not to analyse and understand it. Much of the
evidence suggests that what is going on out there is quite superficial.” -
This year, researchers at University College London reported the results of a
five-year study into the “Google Generation”. When they examined the
behaviour of those logging on to the websites of journals, e-books and other
sources of written information, they found widespread evidence of “skimming
activity”. Users viewed no more than three pages before “bouncing out”. - 1 more annotations...
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Pioneering research shows ‘Google Generation’ is a myth
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The first ever virtual longitudinal
study carried out by the CIBER research team at University College
London claims that, although young people demonstrate an apparent
ease and familiarity with computers, they rely heavily on search
engines, view rather than read and do not possess the critical and
analytical skills to assess the information that they find on the
web.
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E-Mail Affects Brain More Than Marijuana ( Today’s technology has replaced the smo...)
Hewlett Packard/ University of London Institute of Psychiatry Study founds that constant e-mail use and texting lowers avg. workers IQ by 10 points, 6 points more than pot.
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Conducted by scientists from the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London, the study found that continual e-mail use and text-messaging lowered the average worker's IQ by as much as ten points. Smoking marijuana regularly, on the other hand, causes only a four-point drop in intelligence
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Attention class - The Boston Globe
Maggie Jackson writes about Attention, Michael Posner, etc.
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Researchers are finding that attention is crucial to a host of other, sometimes surprising, life skills: the ability to sort through conflicting evidence, to connect more deeply with other people, and even to develop a conscience.
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many scientists are drawing a much clearer picture of attention, which they have come to see as an organ system like circulation or digestion, with its own anatomy, circuitry, and chemistry.
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Internet Addiction: An exploratory study
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Thirteen hundred college students from eight academic institutions were surveyed, in
classrooms, about their Internet use for the purpose of identifying how their Internet use
has affected their social or academic lives. -
a preliminary investigation into various aspects
of Internet use among college students - 3 more annotations...
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Basics - So Young, and So Gadgeted - NYTimes.com
Jean Piaget's Four Cognitive Stages of children related to today's technology consumption by children
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Long before the invention of the first microprocessor, the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget identified four stages of cognitive development by watching his own children. His theories bring some logic to the debate about how to support your child’s growth with the latest technology.
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Technology and Drugs are Changing Brain Function - Science - redOrbit
Susan Greenfield on FEARS of how technology is changing brain.
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Writing in Britain’s Daily Mail, neuroscientist Susan Greenfield, Oxford University Alzheimer’s researcher and author of the book “ID: The Quest For Identity In The 21st Century”, says modern technology, including violent video games, multichannel television and the Internet, is altering the way our brains work.
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“Electronic devices and pharmaceutical drugs all have an impact on the micro- cellular structure and complex biochemistry of our brains. And that, in turn, affects our personality, our behavior and our characteristics. In short, the modern world could well be altering our human identity.” Greenfield said.
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» Violent Video Games Leave Impact - Psych Central News
Study at University of Indiana found that violent games actually have affect on brain shape, development
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study has found that adolescents who play violent video games may exhibit emotional arousal and diminished control, focus and concentration.
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“Our study suggests that playing a certain type of violent video game may have different short-term effects on brain function than playing a nonviolent — but exciting — game,” said Vincent P. Mathews, M.D., professor of radiology at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.
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Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don’t Read This in Traffic - New York Times
Article looks at numerous different studies being done on how technology has affected people's ability to focus, multitask.
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Multitasking is going to slow you down, increasing the chances of mistakes,” said David E. Meyer, a cognitive scientist and director of the Brain, Cognition and Action Laboratory at the University of Michigan. “Disruptions and interruptions are a bad deal from the standpoint of our ability to process information.”
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René Marois, a neuroscientist and director of the Human Information Processing Laboratory at Vanderbilt University.
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