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23 Sep 08

CITE Journal - Editorial

Connecting Informal and Formal Learning Experiences in the Age of Participatory Media (article by Bull, Thompson, Searson, Garofalo, Young, Lee, and Park)

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16 Jul 08

EBSCOhost: Game On!

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10 Jul 08

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

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Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy.
Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy
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- concentration often starts to drift
- concentration often starts to drift
- media are not just passive channels of information
- media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought.
- shape the process of thought
- chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation.
- “staccato” quality, reflecting the way he quickly scans short passages of text from many sources online
- they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.
- We are not only what we read,
- We are how we read.”
- “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else,
- we tend to become “mere decoders of information.” Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged.
- media or other technologies we use in learning and practicing the craft of reading play an important part in shaping the neural circuits inside our brains.
- Nietzsche’s prose “changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style.”
- infinitely malleable
- “intellectual technologies”—the tools that extend our mental rather than our physical capacities—we inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies.
- rejection of those direct experiences that formed the basis for, and indeed constituted, the old reality
- adaptation occurs also at a biological level.
- scatter our attention and diffuse our concentration.
- traditional media have to adapt to the audience’s new expectations.
- little consideration of how, exactly, it’s reprogramming us
- “In the past the man has been first,” he declared; “in the future the system must be first.”
- Taylor’s ethic is beginning to govern the realm of the mind as well
- refine the algorithms that increasingly control how people find information and extract meaning from it
- “understands exactly what you mean and gives you back exactly what you want.”
- a mechanical process, a series of discrete steps that can be isolated, measured, and optimized.
- fuzziness of contemplation
- “be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant
- In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas. Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking.
- pancake people’—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.”
- as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.

08 Jul 08

As We May Think

reading for Educational Seminar this month

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. Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by
the artificiality of systems of indexing. When data of any sort are placed in
storage, they are filed alphabetically or numerically, and information is found
(when it is) by tracing it down from subclass to subclass. It can be in only
one place, unless duplicates are used; one has to have rules as to which path
will locate it, and the rules are cumbersome. Having found one item, moreover,
one has to emerge from the system and re-enter on a new path.

The human mind does not work that way. It operates by association.
With one
item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the
association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate web of trails
carried by the cells of the brain
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- A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.
- It affords an immediate step, however, to associative
  indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused
  at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential
  feature of the memex. The process of tying two items together is the important
  thing.
- Thus he builds a trail of his interest through the maze of materials
  available to him.
- passes it to his friend for
  insertion in his own memex
- science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults
  the record of the race
- our steps in creating or absorbing material of the record proceed through
- path may
  be established more directly
- He has
  built a civilization so complex that he needs to mechanize his records more
  fully if he is to push his experiment to its logical conclusion and not merely
  become bogged down part way there by overtaxing his limited memory. His
  excursions may be more enjoyable if he can reacquire the privilege of
  forgetting the manifold things he does not need to have immediately at hand,
  with some assurance that he can find them again if they prove important.

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