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The New Literacy: Stanford study finds richness and complexity in students' writing
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Reading the Reader | Academic Commons
Great insight into reading and researching students reading - "These electronic annotations make the implicit explicit and are a pedagogically powerful tool I would ordinarily have neither the time nor resources to employ. They help me diagnose reading strengths and weaknesses around a given text and decide where to place the focus of discussion and assignments. What do they understand and what don’t they? Where does the text make sense and where doesn’t it? Electronic annotation also presents an integrated tool that strengthens students’ critical reading. It forces them to slow down and become metacognitively aware of their reading in real time." via Stephen Downes
apophenia: when research is de-contextualized
My favorite, most trusted academic research on computer/web/social media issues applies critical thinking to shallow thining about the web by those who should know better
apophenia
danah boyd is one of the best academic researchers about "about social media, social software, social networks and other industry-relevant topics". Here is a list of links, a "best of" to highlight the essays that are most interesting to newcomers interested in social media. Right now, these are just recent essays and blog posts that deal with particular issues in depth."
Research Study on Ubiquitous Learning (uLearning) | Workplace Learning Today
Concept map says it all (or at least alerts you to where you can learn more).
Digital Research Tools Wiki
"This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for. "
Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis?
"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." This connects, IMHO, with the Clive Thompson Wired article on "More Info ... Less Knowledge", linked below.
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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.
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Visual intelligence has been rising globally for 50 years, Greenfield said. In 1942, people's visual performance, as measured by a visual intelligence test known as Raven's Progressive Matrices, went steadily down with age and declined substantially from age 25 to 65. By 1992, there was a much less significant age-related disparity in visual intelligence, Greenfield said.
"In a 1992 study, visual IQ stayed almost flat from age 25 to 65," she said.
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