vanessa calhoun's List: Disinformation Debate

• "The declining impact of education on our adult population was the biggest surprise for us, and we just don't have a good explanation," said Mark S. Schneider, commissioner of education statistics. "It may be that institutions have not yet figured out how to teach a whole generation of students who learned to read on the computer and who watch more TV. It's a different kind of literacy." 

   
• There is a tremendous literacy problem among high school graduates that is not talked about," said Perin, who has been sitting in on high school classes as part of a teaching project. "It's a little bit depressing. The colleges are left holding the bag, trying to teach students who have challenges."
• 0 million people struggling with basic reading tasks.

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• Teenage literacy is in steep decline as schoolchildren are increasingly favouring books that are well below their reading age, research has revealed.
• 'Although in a small number of years the difficulty of books remained the same as our study in 2010, in the majority of years the difficulty of books has sharply declined.'

• t's an excellent tool to encourage students to take their writing to a new level as well as a way to bring technology into your curriculum.

• 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.
• imagination in a way that visual media such as video games and television do not, Greenfield said.
• "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."
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  Parents should encourage their children to read and should read to their young children, she said.
• These and other studies show that multi-tasking "prevents people from getting a deeper understanding of information," Greenfield said.
• In another study, video game skills were a better predictor of surgeons' success in performing laparoscopic surgery than actual laparoscopic surgery experience.

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