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16 Jul 08

EBSCOhost: Game On!

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15 Jul 08

Thinking out of the (x)Box: Gaming to expand horizons in creative writing

Ewan Mcintosh's blog entry, updated July 15, 2008, on gaming as used in education specifically as related to expanding creative writing in the classroom.

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Alliance for Childhood - Fool's Gold: A Critical Look at Computers in Childhood - Chapter 3

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Will proficiency in technical skills alone suffice?
- When has proficiency ever sufficed? It is always about the context of the skills and tools, not just how to use them. - on 2008-07-15
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But they are advanced
intellectual tools that do not engage bodies, hands, or hearts in the
experiential ways so essential for children's development.
- No? Give a kid a camera (hands), ask them to photograph an example of sharing (hearts) or kindness or exercise (bodies) to share on the class blog and then tell (oral and auditory) why it shows this idea. (too many other examples to note here) - on 2008-07-15
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- Children of elementary-school age and younger are in general
  neither intellectually nor emotionally mature enough to benefit from using
  these tools. [1]
  - Someone is underestimating the kids, the tools, and the teacher who is using the tools in the classroom. - on 2008-07-15
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- how to enliven
  - See, I think of this is something that can be done WITH technology, not in spite of it. - on 2008-07-15
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- encouraged to
  explore and develop their own inner resources as human beings, including
  the special qualities they share with the rest of the living world
  - They can't do this at least in part by using technology? - on 2008-07-15
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- Unless we
  actually intend our children to become the appendages - or the victims
  - of powerful technologies, we must educate them in ways that clearly
  demonstrate the difference.
  - Why do they equate education that values the humanity of each child with an education void of technology??
    Do they see technology as the only area where children are pushed to do more?
    I saw an 8th grade exit exam from the 19th century - in some ways we expect far less of our students than in the past. (demographics of what constituted the student body historically notwhithstanding) - on 2008-07-15
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- early computer use and computer-like thinking leads children
  to "the rigid, logical, algorithmic thinking, bereft of moral, ethical,
  or spiritual content, that is characteristic of computer interaction,"
  - Again, I would say that the approach of teaching and learning with technology would have a significant impact on how the technology effects the students thinking, morality, ethics, etc. Are kindergarteners learning Java? I think not. They are talking about the fingerpainting they just did that represents their family and posting it to Voicethread or the class blog for their parents and grandparents to see. - on 2008-07-15
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- Close,
  loving relationships with responsible adults.
  - Video-skype with far-flung grandparents, cousins, or other family members! - on 2008-07-15
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- Outdoor
  activity, nature exploration, gardening, and other direct encounters
  with nature.
  - Take a camera! Share the pictures of your outdoor adventure on Flickr. Identify the flowers or other plants or bugs you found in your travels. - on 2008-07-15
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- Music,
  drama, puppetry, dance, painting, and the other arts, offered both as
  separate classes and as a kind of yeast to bring the full range of other
  academic subjects to life.
  - make music in garageband, sing a song and record it, make a video of the puppet show or the dance the child choreographed. Look up a recipe for fingerpaints online and then have fun getting messy! - on 2008-07-15
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- Conversation,
  poetry, storytelling, and books read aloud with beloved adults.
  - Another opportunity for kids to video skype for reading time with family members far away or on a business trip. If the text is online they can take turns reading to each other! - on 2008-07-15
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- We know that
  computers pose hazards to children and can distract adults from children's
  real needs.
  - Really? So do pencils. Or standardized testing. - on 2008-07-15
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- Many concerned
  scientists urge schools to create far more regular opportunities for children
  of all ages to forge deep emotional bonds with the natural world. Otherwise,
  they warn, our children, as adults, will have trouble summoning the courage
  and moral will to respond to such grave challenges.
  - Hm . . still thinking they will need technology to address the issues when they get there. Lucky for us, in the age of portable technology, they can take the tools with them into nature! - on 2008-07-15
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- The
  noise and flash of electronic media demand the child's attention.
  - They are really stuck in the idea of technology as only available for consumption, rather than a tool for creation BY the students. - on 2008-07-15
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- Some schools
  now purchase software simulations of nature as a substitute for live field
  trips to local rivers, parks, or campgrounds.
  - Granted, real nature is better than a simulation for some things. However, what percentage of our students live in areas with no access to "nature" short of an urban park? What % of schools and parents will provide the budget necessary to "get kids to nature"? - on 2008-07-15
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- The current
  emphasis on computer tools in elementary schools encourages children to
  produce "authentic products," such as PowerPoint presentations
  that mimic the style if not the substance of adults' professional work.
  - This is less of an issue when the arts are actually funded with specialists and time for elementary students. The broad range of arts are often the first things to go - if these people care so much they should actively advocate for more arts time and specialists in their schools, not just for fewer powerpoints. - on 2008-07-15
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- In effect,
  then, sacrificing the arts for computers in school may deprive children
  of lifelong enjoyment of some of the most emotionally, culturally, and
  spiritually enriching experiences of being human.
  - Why is this an either/or?
    Why don't they see the arts as an area where technology might be used effectively? - on 2008-07-15
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11 Jul 08

Wired 8.04: Why the future doesn't need us.

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Shaping communication networks: telegraph, telephone, computer - Technology and the Rest of Culture | Social Research | Find Articles at BNET

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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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