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12 Oct 09

Cell phones make kids faster, dumber, The Web of Language

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Last year the Librarian of Congress warned that texting was responsible for a drastic decline in American sentences, but that opinion wasn't backed up by any scientific evidence. Now, a team of Australian psychologists has come a step closer to proving that mobile phones are destroying our ability to think. The researchers show that children who use mobile phones respond to higher-level cognitive tasks faster, but less accurately, than those who don't.
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- Specifically, the psychologists found that as mobile phone use increased, children learned to perform tasks more quickly, but their ability to remember things declined:
- mobile phone use also correlates with impulsivity
- (For other research on texting, click here and here; for the impact of texting on literature, click here; for its impact on politics, click here; for its impact on language development, click here).
- But reports that cell phones are destroying our brains are premature
- All too often, we blame our technologies for whatever ails us. According to Carolyn Marvin (1988), the telephone that Alexander Graham Bell invented -- the one with wires -- was blamed for everything from ear irritations and dizziness to nervous conditions, neuralgia, and even insanity. Wired telephones don't cause these things, any more than wireless phones cause hyperactivity, lowered IQ's, or declining grammar.
- our modern preference for speed doesn't mean that the internet is making us stupid, either. Who's to say that in Gutenberg's day, John and Jane Q. Public (Gutenberg knew them as Johannes and Johanna von Volk) preferred the quick and often inaccurate printed word to the slower, more costly, but more-carefully-prepared handwritten manuscripts that the printing press was replacing
- We've always been attracted to shortcuts, because time has always been of the essence.

04 Oct 09

Why Generation-Y Can’t Read Nonverbal Cues - WSJ.com

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Unfortunately, nearly all of their communication tools involve the exchange of written words alone.
The digital natives improve their adroitness at the keyboard, but when it comes to their capacity to "read" the behavior of others, they are all thumbs

02 Sep 09

'Digitally addicted kids threaten to return civilisation to the Dark Ages' - Online, Media - The Independent

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he consequences of online technology for reading
habits, literacy, and education
The news, I am afraid, is
bleak.
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- Mark
  Bauerlein demonstrates how the internet is making young people increasingly
  ignorant about almost everything except online video games and the
  narcissism of self-authored internet content
- causal relationship
- the rise of digital literacy and the
  decline of cultural literacy
- objective world

17 Aug 09

Dumbest Generation

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OMG! Expert Says Today's Kids Are Stupid : NPR

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the digital generation is pretty much filled with idiots.
adult information
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- an teachers and parents in the home as well, start steering all of that online activity toward productive, knowledge-inducing activity? And I'm pessimistic.
- But I actually think that that's a healthy thing to happen in any society. It's good for old people to rebuke adolescents precisely for their adolescence, and it's good for adolescents to resent the elders for, perhaps, their rigidity about things, or their authoritarian attitudes. I think we actually need a lot more statements about young people not knowing enough history, not reading as many books, work harder, come on, grow up.
- it doesn't seem that adults are really that much brighter when it comes to civics or general world knowledge than students are

13 Aug 09

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Giving up my iPod for a Walkman

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the iPod of its day
Perhaps that kind of anticipation and excitement has been somewhat lost in the flood of new products which now hit our shelves on a regular basis.

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants - Some Thoughts from the Generation Gap

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What Companies Should Know About Digital Natives « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing

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live blogging
age doesn’t always matter as the generation is defined on: access to digital technologies since birth, age, and have the skills to use the digital technologies.
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- Online representation is the same as physical representation
- Opportunity for HR departments to learn more about their employees, but guess what? They Google you too.
- not only do they have the right to speak, but to be heard
- Creators
- rip, mix, burn content to encourage interaction
- online activism
- qualified and expert sources